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hi guys

would one of these work in a H4 remake
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Interface-ID ... 1438.l2649

as am thinking of getting one to use with the STE until the H4 is ready.

Looks like another PP type design. A lot of people tend to have issues with those things. Not trying to discourage, its possible it could work on the H4. Though don't forgot you won't get autoboot IDE on TOS104 on the H4.

I cannot recommend it, I have had this type of IDE controller in one of my STE's. The cable needs to be short, because it's unbuffered. That's one thing... Installation is quite fiddly, because you have to remove the CPU and insert this board into the PLCC socket, the CPU goes in the PLCC socket on this PCB. It did work, but I had all kinds of issues with it. It had problems with CF cards, tested with industrial types, tested it with 2,5 inch IDE harddrive. Timing issues, harddrive adapted games that wouldn't load properly, etc. The only thing that worked reasonable was an IDE to SD adapter.

As a side note here, we do have a working IDE solution already done to plug into the H4, but with so much going on, we not had chance to finish it off yet.

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