So, the question remains: How does someone who speaks only English order one of these? [...] Would appreciate knowing the various options, prices and availability.
Unfortunately Donald's shop is German only, due to legal reasons for one reason and his limited knowledge of the English language. German laws prohibit to open a shop that offers only limited english language, so if he'd write some english words, he'd have to represent the WHOLE shop including legal terms etc. in English - and that's way beyond his time and knowledge.
Anyway... he has been sending a lot of kits and soldered devices around the world so it you want one, you'll be able to get one.
Donald offers the petSD as a kit or a soldered kit with the real time clock as the only option. So that's a basic but still very useful petSD. You can add the USB and/or Ethernet option later, but you have to buy the required parts by yourself (see "configurable parts list" at the petSD homepage). At the moment, USB gives you only some debug messages but nothing more and Ethernet is not supported at all - that's why Donald offers only the RTC option.
Once again: Donald offers kits. If you can solder, select "Bausatz" -- if you wan't all the soldering done but can complete the rest (like putting in inside the housing), select "Löthilfe".
I wrote some words concerning the options in my last post, here are some more vocabularies:
Start at the
petSD homepage, then click at the link to the shop at the first line.
You should now see the petSD in Donald's web shop with a huge German description - basically the same you can read in English at my homepage. Scroll down until you can read "Lieferumfang" (=what to ship) and "Bitte wählen Sie" (=please select options).
There's a box at the bottom right with green or red dots. Green = immediatly available, red = sold out.
Check "Anzahl" (=how many petSD kits) and enter your desired number of petSD kits.
Then select the following options:
"nur Bausatz" = you'll get a kit that you have to solder by yourself
"Bausatz mit Löthilfe" = you'll get a kit with all soldering work done. So you don't have to solder by yourself, but still have to put the chips into the sockets and put it inside the case.
This strange practice is due to German law and to explain that further is a bit beyond this post... please live with it.
"mit Uhren-Modul" = with real-time-clock. You can add them later if you want a basic kit first.
"A0: 5,5mm options / beide Buchsen": that's the size of the plug for the DC-connector: 2.1mm or 2.5mm or both. I guess that option will disappear soon since I only know 5V DC wall connectors with 2.1mm plug diameter. So please use the preselected "2,1mm Buchse" option.
Click at "In den Warenkorb" = add to basket
After selecting your options and clicking on "In den Warenkorb" (add to basket) click at "Warenkorb" (=basket) located at the top right.
Choose your country (Land) and state (Bundesland) and zip code, then click at "Zur Kasse" (=checkout).
Now choose the last option "Bestellen ohne Kundenkonto" (order without prior registration) and click at "Weiter" (=continue).
Click at "Ich habe die Datenschutz..." to confirm you agree that your address data gets stored in a computer database - funny, but it's German law.
Then enter your name and address:
"Firma" = "company". Leave it empty if you don't need this.
"Herr" = "Mister"
"Frau" = "Miss"
"Vorname" = "first name"
"Nachname" = "last name"
"Straße" = "street"
"Anschrift Zeile 2" = "additional space for address information"
"Postleitzahl" = "zip code"
"Ort" = "city"
"Land" = "country"
"E-Mail Adresse" = "e-mail address"
You don't need to fill out Telefon/Fax (phone).
Then click at "Weiter" (=continue)
You should now be at "Schritt 2 von 4" (=step 2 of 4) and see your address at the top left.
Select "Maxibrief per Einschreiben" (=send by registered mail). Select "Paket" (=parcel) only if you order a mass of petSDs that are too heavy to send them by mail.
If you want to, you can add some comments at "Kommentare".
Click at "Weiter" (=continue)
Now you're at "Schritt 3 von 4" (=step 3 of 4).
Check "Ich habe die AGB gelesen und akzeptiert" (=I read the legal terms and conditions and agree) - German law, nothing special inside. Basically: you have to pay first before you get something.
Inside the box "Zahlungsart" (=how you'd like to pay), select PayPal.
Again, click at "Weiter" to continue.
Now you reached the final step. Check your billing address (top left, "Rechnungsanschrift") and shipping address (top right, "Lieferanschrift"), your remarks ("Anmerkungen oder Hinweise"), your order ("Warenkorbinhalt", that's what has been in your basket).
Check the "Zwischensumme" (sub total), "Versandkosten" (shipping costs) and "Endsumme" (grand total).
Click at "Bearbeiten" (=edit) if you'd like to change something or... if you agree with all you see and checked it: "Bestellung bestätigen" to proceed to PayPal checkout.
Sorry for the German-only shop... if you have any questions, I'd like to help.
If somebody would like to offer the petSD in a shop in English language please contact me.
I tried several times to send Nils e-mail, but his web-mail spam filter (!) refuses to accept a message. Dropped a note to Donald, but he never responded.
I'm sorry, I did not know that there's some trouble with the spam filter. Please feel free to send me a mail directly to nils.eilers -AT- gmx -DOT- de. I'll fix that issue ASAP.
Also: Does PetSD have the ability to emulate two active drives simultaneously? I've been told that the SuperPET Waterloo tool suite requires both "0" and "1" online at the same time. The person who makes the Petdisk is looking into adding this feature, but I was curious if PetSD might not already do this.
To be honest: hell, who knows...
The sd2iec firmware supports multiple partitions on a single SD-card. If I'm right, the README says that files on different partitions could be selected by 0:FILENAME for the first partition and 1:FILENAME for the second partition. Maybe this could be some sort of dual drive emulation, but I really didn't try that so far.
However, dual drive support still is on my to-do-list, but time is a limited factor.
The bad news: IHMO Windows doesn't support multiple partitions on a single SD-card, it shows only the first. So if you'd like to play around with multiple partitions to emulate dual drives, you'll probably have to use some *NIX like Linux, *BSD or Mac OS X.
I'll give it a try and report then.
