#cf card

[mingos-commodoreblog]

C64 Upgrade Part 10 - The IDE64 Expansion

[commodorez]

I was given these at VCF Midwest.  How appropriate.

[commodorez]

My Toshiba Libretto 70CT finally got a few key upgrades.  It’s still got a few things that need tweaking, but it’s getting there.  Here’s what I did:

Updated the BIOS to version V6.40 from 1999!

Imaged the old hard drive onto a CF card, and swapped in a CF -> IDE adapter.  It runs silent and incredibly fast now.

Bought an old 16-bit PCMCIA CF card socket so I don’t have to use the external floppy drive to copy files back and forth. 

Bought a port expansion, providing me with serial, parallel, and VGA sockets (sadly no PS/2 mouse port).  A serial test with Hyperterminal to Vega (running 95C) was successful.

Installed 95Plus!

Tested Doom.

If I can find hardware specific drivers for the 70CT, I want try installing 95B from scratch.  It would let me take full advantage of all 8GB of CF card, in glorious FAT32.  Right now I’m limited to 1.5GB in FAT16, and all attempts at resizing to just under the 4GB limit render the drive unable to boot. 

Oh, and Critical Mass, one of my favorite old games, is apparently too taxing for this hardware to handle.  Bogus, man.

[yetanotherthriftblog]

Today's odd thrift find was a 30 megabyte Compact Flash card. Not measured in gigabytes, not 32mb like you'd think would math out and you've seen plenty of times in the past, but thirty.

At first I thought "since the file allocation table takes some space, maybe it's a 32mb but they're correctly reporting how much storage is available for once." Uh-uh. Available space is 28.5 megs.

[technicalguide]

Flexxon’s Industrial Grade PATA SSD & COMPACT FLASH CARD

Flexxon’s Industrial Grade PATA SSD & COMPACT FLASH CARD

[technicalguide]

CF to PCMCIA Adapter - Flexxon

Flexxon CF to PCMCIA adapter offers fast read and write to a Compact Flash Card via any PC slot. The adapter requires no additional driver.