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Profile mod to use flash drive

I recall seeing-- somewhere-- that someone had built a board that replaced the ST506 in a Profile with a flash drive of some sort.

Since the CFFA3000 doesn't support SOS directly, and I think that a 30-year-old hard drive probably wouldn't be reliable, I'd really like to find where I saw this.

(If I did, of course.)

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

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http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/patrick/IDEfaq.htm

Maybe this?

http://vintagemicros.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/282

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=201063252369

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I recall seeing-- somewhere-- that someone had built a board that replaced the ST506 in a Profile with a flash drive of some sort.

Sean's right, it's the IDEFile.

Since the CFFA3000 doesn't support SOS directly,

What? It most certainly does. May I direct you to RTFM?
http://dreher.net/projects/CFforAppleII/downloads/CFFA3000/CFFA3000_CDv1.3.zip

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Well, duh. The question is why I tried to figure this out searching online rather than just, you know, taking the documentation CD that came with the card and reading the manual.

I had found a discussion about this from a few years back wherein it was obvious that the card could only be used with an Apple /// in Apple ][ emulation mode. Things have changed since then!

Good; I actually wasn't looking forward to trying to set up a ProFile or IDEFile. This is vastly more elegant.

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I had found a discussion about this from a few years back wherein it was obvious that the card could only be used with an Apple /// in Apple ][ emulation mode. Things have changed since then!

No, actually, they haven't. Even the CFFA v2 had a spectacular set of Apple /// utilities and drivers. Maybe they were talking about the configuration menu - that is only accessible from emulation mode because it depends on Apple II firmware for its display. But you really only need to do that once.

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Dang - I just knew I was holding onto my older CFFA cards for a reason!

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