A 3000 plus

luckily I already had a low capacity CF card (128 MB)

Nah, low capacity is the 64MB ones I’ve got here or the 16MB ones on the desk at work

Nah, low capacity is the 64MB ones I’ve got here or the 16MB ones on the desk at work

Low in this context is 256MB or less – it’s not a competition, Steve! Mine’s lower than yours indeed!

but I don’t know how many pins your SCSI adapter has.

It’s Acorn era. It’s gonna be a 50 way. Maybe ribbon cable socket inside, but big Centronics on the back…

P=.

Rick
If you suggest a 50 pin up to 2 GB, why did you suggest the drive from cjemicros, which is a 4.3, and by old but new, did you mean don’t buy an old reformatted unit. If the 3000 can only accept up to 512MB, will it just show up that size and forget the rest of the volume, so even a 100Gb will show as a 512.
Found the problem with my mouse, but the 9 pin plug took a hell of a beating. Broken wire from pin3 to edge connector. Its working once more but now need a new plug.

You want a SCSI2SD adapter. Works fine in my A3000 and anywhere else I tried. I bought it via eBay. It is very flexible, allows to use parts of the SD card as separate SCSI devices.

http://store.inertialcomputing.com/SCSI2SD-p/scsi2sd-v5b.htm

Software for it is open source. The V5 variant is async only (i.e. “classic narrow SCSI”, not “Fast SCSI2”), so limited to 3.3 MiB/s, but this is still faster than most podules could ever go.

If the 3000 can only accept up to 512MB, will it just show up that size and forget the rest of the volume, so even a 100Gb will show as a 512.

I suggested that because:

1, the drive heading says it is a 2GB drive, not sure why the small words contradict that..
2, the Morley firmware supports partitioning.
3, the available hard drives by default are :4 to :7.
4, 4×512MB is 2GB

And yes, don’t buy a “reconditioned” hard drive. There is no such thing. You can’t undo wear on drive components. It just means somebody bothered to format it before selling it on…

1, the drive heading says it is a 2GB drive, not sure why the small words contradict that..

Opps I’ll get that corrected.
Some but not all drives greater than 2GB can be used, the space after 2GB is just ignored. This may depend on the SCSI interface.
Chris (CJE Micro’s)

Rick,
If the available hard drives are :4 to :7, what happens to the present occupant of :7, because my *status list says host controller is in that location.
I do like Steffen’s idea of the SCSI2SD adapter, but not sure my pension will run to it, but looks like the future.

Logical drive number != SCSI ID.

I’m using SCSI2SD very happily in my R260.

It can be made to appear as up to 4 separate SCSI drives, so with partitioning on the Morley card, you could get 8 * 512MB drives (am I right in remembering that 8 is the limit?).

So I’m now about to bite the bullet and buy a SCSI2SD adaptor to take the place of my cream crackered hard drive. I have on old 512mb micro sd card that used to live in an old Blackberry, will this do the job, Its 6 times the old HD

Just make sure that you use a highly reputable SD card from a highly reputable dealer (to minimise your risk of getting a forged SD card) and take frequent backups. SD cards are not intended for that kind of job, but a good one will allow you to get away with it for a while.

John please let us know if the SCSI to SD unit works O.K.?

Hi All,

If I follow :
https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10547
I can at least open the drive in RISCOS