Windows CE to CDROM, ZIP, MO, HD, JAZ, CD-R

For those users who didn't know,
WinCE2.11 supports SCSI CDROM, ZIP, MO, HD, JAZ, CD-R*not writable
With: http://www.adaptec.co.jp/portable/wince.html

It's pretty cool I think.


stingraze

Drivers for the Adaptec Nics can be found in the HCL. I don't have a good list of things that are confirmed to work with them.

Do you have either of the Cards stingraze?

Unfortunately, I don't have the SCSI card or NIC(but I'm sure i can get it) to try and test out.

The adaptec homepage said SLIM SCSI 1460 can have even a 8GB (or maybe more??) hardisk! In order to do that, since FAT16 supports up to 2GB, one must format and partition in 4 separate 2GB spaces.

The SCSI card can also connect up to two SCSI devices, and can run programs for WinCE on MO,JAZ,ZIP,HD. I think you can only connect one CDROM device and MO,JAZ,ZIP,HD drives on the other. The homepage also says the MO,JAZ,ZIP,HD drives are recognized as a memorycard. Max transfer rate (on spec chart) is 10MB/s (not bad!)


hope someone gets to try it out.
stingraze

Edited by stingraze 2005-02-04 5:03 PM

You looking to test it on a CE 1.0 or early CE 2.0 device then?

Thats the great thing about SCSI, dasy chaining. Although the norm is 130 device but two is still good for CE.

SLIM SCSI 1460 doesn't support CE1.0 or 2.0 It supports 2.11+ I'm planning to test it on Mobile Gear MC-R520 (MIPS, H/PC3.0) if I get the SLIM SCSI 1460.


Edited by stingraze 2005-02-04 7:01 PM

Precisely

So why you telling everybody you have to obey the FAT16 limits?

I do appear to have 2.00 drivers in the HCL for it.

Unfortunately, SLIM SCSI 1460 doesn't support FAT32

It says nothing about that on Adaptec.com, and alsso I see there it states that CE only supports 1 device, 1 drive partition. So no daisy chaining.

I don't understand why it wouldn't support FAT32 exactly... Got more info?

In the adaptec japan FAQ, I learned that Driver v.2.11 supports 2 devices one.
http://www.adaptec.co.jp/portable/faq_ce.html

Also, I have misinformed one place. This runs on Windows CE v2.xx if it is only MO,JAZ,ZIP,HD. But does not run on Wince 2.0 if it is CD-ROM or CD-R.

As for not supporting FAT32, probably the adaptec driver does not support it.


I don't know why on Adaptec.com it says it supports only 1 device... Probably the Adaptec Japan and Adaptec in North America developed different drivers.

Interesting, probably worth giving both a try if anyone has one of the adapters.

The Adaptec USA site mentions is using NTFS and FAT32 disks under normal Windows, and NTFS is a lot heavier than FAT is.
Either they mades a huge good in the CE drivers, or perhaps they're just not sure?

I don't know if they're not sure, but because Adaptec Japan is a separate company as Apaptec USA, probably they improved their drivers. The ver.2.12 driver supports Japanese character display on folder name, volumename, and filename on the volume.

Yea but all that is down to the Operating System's control. WinCE is already a unicode system.
Open a Japanese written Hard disk on and English Windows 98 and good times will not be had by all.

Interesting one though.

I've got a AHA-1460D Slim SCSI card & IOmega ZIP, JAZdrive
But they don't seem to work with my Sharp HC7000 (Intermec 6651)
It just asks for the name of the card when I inserted it
~I've previously installed the Adaptec CE 2.1 driver
HPC2000 should have the compatibility I guess!

I connect a external USB 4X CDRW(Acer 4406eu) as a CD-ROM
And it just Plug & Play

You connected a USB CD Drive to a SCSI controller

*slaps*
He couldn't get the SCSI controller to work, so he used a USB drive thru his Intermec's USB host port instead.

BTW, just a thought I've had for a while. If you can connect a CD or even DVD drive, can you possibly watch VCD or DVD movies on the HPC using BetaPlayer or something?

Edited by takwu 2005-02-07 10:15 PM