I've standardized on, and been happy with these: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000415725711.html
There's a lot of vendors that sell them, including on ebay and Amazon. I haven't really had any problem with those adapters, including on native ISA IDE controllers and XT-IDE. There's IDE to CF adapters too, but I find SD cards easier to use and cheaper/easier to get in bulk. Pat On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 12:07 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > After having a run of almost half a dozen IDE hard drive failures recently > in > a short period of time (on my older desktops which use them, I've decided > that > I should see if there's an IDE emulator (using SD cards) available I could > switch to. (I'm not sure why I had so many failures in such a short > period; I > can only conclude that they're too old now, and reaching the end of their > service lives. > > So soes anyone have one (or more) they can recommend? (IDE simulators > only; I > don't want to have to mess around changing anything more than I > _absolutely_ > have to)? I did find these guys: > > http://store.mesanet.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=74_64 > > in an online search - the CFADPTHD seems like it's close to what I'd want, > except it's Compact Flash; I'd have preferred SD but I guess converting > their interface to IDE is more work. > > Noel > >
