BBC Master 128 Internal Compact Flash Hard Drive Kit
with 1GB CF Card

For the BBC Master 128 - with printed install guide - see below for Model B info

This is a Buy-It-Now sale for a New Compact Flash ADFS type Hard Drive kit, specifically catered towards the Master 128.

The kit is a tried and tested IDE version of the ADFS Winchester system, and is fully compatible with software that uses one. It comes with dozens of software titles loaded ready to go via a menu system, and you can add more either by directly copying from a disk drive or GOTEK to the ADFS system, or via PC tools such as ADFS explorer. 

The advantage of the CF system is it's fully ADFS compliant, and is the same system that was used with my DataCentre. This means that DataCentre images are fully compatible, as are other .DAT hard drive images you may find on the net, or use with BeebEm and the like. 

If you also have a Raspberry Pi CoProcessor fitted, then the CF system adds a whole heap of extra features. It can be set up as a Level 3 Econet File Server (with Econet hardware added to the machine), as boot drive for the DOS core of the RPi CoProcessor, or to run DOOM...which is included on the CF card on this system.

The kit is easy to install, and doesn't require any soldering, or cutting of cables. You can route the 1MHz cable under the motherboard if you wish, and for some Masters you may need to trim a little area on the lower case for this, or you can run it above. The power cable is simple to fit, you just remove the Black and Red +5v and Ground cables from the centre of the motherboard, plug them into the new power cable, then the corresponding connectors on the new cable plug back onto the motherboard, and onto the CF adapter.

An ADFS 1.53 ROM comes with it as well as 4 mounting posts, to stick the adapter to the lid of the Master. You can also fit it into a small project box if you wanted to. There is also a leaflet describing the install process (please forgive me though this is a work in progress, so anything that is unclear, please message to ask!), and a DVD of utilities and other software and interesting Beeb related videos. If you have one of my MultiOS IDE upgrades, then you won't even need to fit the ADFS ROM, as the MultiOS IDE is already patched ready for use with the system. Other brands of MultiOS should also be compatible, if patched correctly.

The kit comes with a preformatted 1GB card. Because the BBC Master and ADFS are both 8 bit based, and IDE and CF cards are all 16 bit, you can only use half the stated capacity, so the card is supplied formatted to a single partition of 512MB(ish) as Drive :0. You'll struggle to fill a partition of that size with the 8 bit beeb software.

This kit was designed for use with the Master 128 only. Whilst it will physically work on a Model B, they use a different CF Image and ADFS version, as well as a different power cable. I have separate kits for the Model B, please see my other listings.

Any questions, please ask!

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