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XT IDE Ordering interest? (Was: Xt-ide

XT IDE Ordering interest? (Was: Xt-ide

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    Votes: 59 52.7%

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    Votes: 38 33.9%

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    Votes: 8 7.1%

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    Votes: 5 4.5%

  • 5+ (please post how many below)

    Votes: 2 1.8%
  • Total voters
    112
RWallmow said:
These cards have been out of production for a while, go check out https://www.lo-tech.co.uk/wiki/Lo-tech_XT-CF_Board it's based on this project.
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I highly recommend the lo-tech XT-CF cards, I'm using several of them myself. But in their current incarnation they don't come pre-assembled, they don't even come as a kit but rather as a bare PCB. You have to find and buy all components separately, and solder them (easy as they're mostly through-hole).
 
RWallmow said:
These cards have been out of production for a while, go check out https://www.lo-tech.co.uk/wiki/Lo-tech_XT-CF_Board it's based on this project.
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The CPLD as applied in that particular board is not up to snuff and tends to have problems or fail in a fairly short time. This has been confirmed to me by James Pierce here. The card I have (with that CPLD) failed in a reasonably short period of time after only relatively infrequent if not extremely limited use. This is definitely not a recommended model.
 
jh1523 said:
However this model https://www.lo-tech.co.uk/wiki/Lo-tech_ISA_CompactFlash_Adapter_revision_2b uses only TTL logic and no CPLDs, has no problems at all.
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I have several of those as well...great units, and easy to solder together as they are all through-hole. That was one of my first soldering projects of that size, and it worked out just fine. After I did one of those, I moved on to an XT-IDE rev2...no big deal. To those who are afraid of soldering stuff like that, and that was somewhat me at one time, I taught my 7-year old daughter to solder together a small ebay "electronic dice" kit just the other day...she did a great job...I was impressed. If she can do it, so can you. :) Though I do recommend a decent soldering station - look up the Yihua 936 (like $20 from Hobby King) if you want something decent and cheap...get a chisel tip (works much better than the small pointed one that is included) and you're in business. Now, if vision and such is an issue, I can understand, and in such cases, I retract my statements...otherwise, give it a shot! It's a great feeling of accomplishment when it works.

Wesley
 
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