I got an IDS Cable at
http://www.monoprice.com/products/produ ... 1&format=2and connected it to an "IDE to Compact Flash CF Adapter" at
http://www.monoprice.com/products/produ ... 1&format=2You can see a bigger picture of the adapter at
http://www.monoprice.com/products/produ ... largeimageEverything seems to fit together. When I connect it to the CFFA Card and powered up my IIgs
the red power-on LED on the Adapter lit up, showing the Adapter is getting power.
Next in Advanced Disk Utilities (ADU) in OSGS, I tried to initialize the volumes. I see two new volumes
that are not initialized. When I tryied to initialize, the green activity LED on the Adapter lit up,
but I quickly got a message saying the device was locked.
I powered down, and changed a jumper on the Adapter from Master to Slave, which makes
sense. Tried to initialize again with ADU, but got the same error message.
So the hardware seems to fit together, but I can't OSGS to initialize the volumes, which I
presume are on the second Compact Flash card in the Adapter.
Incidentally both the card in the CFFA and in the Adapter are SanDisks.
I'd really like to get this to work. The IDE cable is 38" long and comes way out of the IIgs
with the case cover on, so it would make a very nice back up, if it will work. The
Adapter card and the IDE cable are cheap. I'd be happy to buy a different brand, if
anyone has a suggestion.
Also, my CFFA card is a dream come true. Really it is just wonderful and does everything
I'd hoped for, but I need an easy way to back-up about 3 mb of data.
DrTom