Eudimorphodon
Veteran Member
So, also kind of off topic except for how it applies to making "Combo" expansion cards that include XT-CF implementations...
I just finished throwing together a second example of my new GAL-based card (so for the first time I'm running the same thing in both the EX and the HX), and when throwing it into the 1000 SUX for testing I decided just for the heck of it to try re-testing a random sample of a big batch of Compact Flash cards which had failed Disktest's mediatest with my previous boards. To cut to the chase, no; the same cards fail with the GAL implementation as did with the discrete decoding. (TL;DR, under 256MB cards that ID as "STI" are generally fine, anything that says "Unigen" or "Smart" is garbage. Unfortunately for me that includes all my 512MB and 2GB cards.)
Not really a surprise or anything, but, man. It's kind of disappointing just how hit and miss CF card compatibility is. Makes me hope nothing changes with those cheap PATA->SD card adapters to ruin their so-far perfect 8-bit compatibility.
I just finished throwing together a second example of my new GAL-based card (so for the first time I'm running the same thing in both the EX and the HX), and when throwing it into the 1000 SUX for testing I decided just for the heck of it to try re-testing a random sample of a big batch of Compact Flash cards which had failed Disktest's mediatest with my previous boards. To cut to the chase, no; the same cards fail with the GAL implementation as did with the discrete decoding. (TL;DR, under 256MB cards that ID as "STI" are generally fine, anything that says "Unigen" or "Smart" is garbage. Unfortunately for me that includes all my 512MB and 2GB cards.)
Not really a surprise or anything, but, man. It's kind of disappointing just how hit and miss CF card compatibility is. Makes me hope nothing changes with those cheap PATA->SD card adapters to ruin their so-far perfect 8-bit compatibility.