Falcon hard disk driver

[+Philsan]

Many years ago I partitioned and formatted my Falcon's internal IDE Conner hard disk with Atari Advanced Hard Disk Utility 5.04 found on Falcon floppy disks.

 

Now I would like to replace the hard disk with a CF card (I found a spare IDE compact flash adapter I used more than 10 years ago for Amiga).

 

I read that nowadays there are new drivers like Atari ST hard disk driver SW, HDDRIVER or ICD Pro.

 

Someone could please explain me the differences between original Atari driver and modern ones?

 

Thank you!

[snarkdluG]

You also have ICD Pro which is free nowadays: http://joo.kie.sk/?page_id=306

[ParanoidLittleMan]

Modern ones create TOS/DOS compatible partitions, so data transfer with some modern computer - PC, MAC, OS-Linux, Win., MacOS is very simple. And that old driver with Conner was probably limited to max capacity of some 512 MB - no LBA mode, what can much larger capacities.

Myself had  2.5 inch 80 MB Conner, some WD and IBM IDE drives in early 90-es, partitions of 32 MB were fine with them. Today can buy for 10-30x less money 500x bigger and funny, about 500x smaller storage - bigger is capacity, smaller is physical size, weight .

[+Philsan]

OK, thanks for explanations, I will use a modern driver then.

 

And which is the best one, especially for running Atari ST games adapted (thank you very much @ParanoidLittleMan) and Jeu Falcon from compact flash IDE hard disk?

[ParanoidLittleMan]

Well, I will not go in which is best, since one of mentioned here is mine SW.

One more correction: ICD drivers support not IDE port, so certainly not good for this case, or Falcon overall.

So, those at Jeu Falcon are all good for hard disk install ?

[+Philsan]

I don't know if your driver is the best @ParanoidLittleMan but you deserve support for your huge work.

Please PM payment details, thanks.

I only tested a few games from Jeu Falcon and they worked.

I am waiting memory expansion and NetUSBee to copy and test them