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Click on the button below to purchase a Blitz interface with a drive UnipodWe also offer the STD UniPod. This combines a USB interface, NET 100 and fast IDE inteface in a single podule. The UniPod is normally supplied with only one of these three functions enabled and you have to pay £25 for each additional function. We supply it with all 3 functions enabled. Some other dealers offer the Unipod for as little as £99 with only one function enabled but you then have to pay £25 to get each additional function operational. Only £134 or £130 when ordered with a drive.Price includes UK carriage. Please add £3.50 outside UKClick on the button below to purchase a Unipod with a hard drive Other APDL IDE interfacesWe have now discontinued the popular ArcIn interface though we do have a few left - see below. If you have an APDL IDE interface and want to to the Blitz or Unipod upgrade we can arrange a part-exchange upgrade.
We still have a limited number of ArcIn interfaces. These are functionally identical to the Blitz but are not as fast with a speed of around 3.6 MB/sec sustained or up to 4.5 MB/sec burst when fitted to a RiscPC or A7000. About twice the speed of ADFS. These cost just £55 including UK carriage. Please check availability before ordering. Features of APDL IDE interfacesThe main features of all models are -
You need a backplane to use an IDE interface on the RiscPC. Most models already have one (it's the vertical PCB behind the floppy drive and plugs into the motherboard at the bottom) but if you don't have one we can supply 2 or 4 slot backplanes. Interfaces and Solid State drives for A3000, A3010, A3020 and A4000.We do still have IDE interfaces for the A3000 and A3010. These can also be used with the We also have a limited number of interfaces with a User Port instead of an external IDE connector. They therefore cannot have external drives or CD ROMs connected but otherwise have all the features of our normal A3IN IDE interfaces. These cost just £15. Please add £5 UK carriage, £7 outside UK. Solid State drivesFor models such as the A3000, A3010, A3020 and A4000 there are great advantages in using Compact Flash (CF) instead of a normal hard drive. CF cards are completely silent and require only a fraction of the power of a normal hard drive thus putting much less strain on the small power supply in these models and this also means they generate less heat. As small hard drives are no longer manufactured this is an ideal and low cost way to fit a hard drive to these older models.We can supply an interface with User Port (as described above) fitted with a 1GB CF card, partitioned into two 500MB drives, for just £29.90 plus £5 UK carriage. This looks and works just like a normal hard drive. As it takes a standard CF card this can be replaced should the need ever arise. You can also increase the capacity to 2GB (4 x 500MB partitions) if required. A printed manual and formatting/partitioning software is included. An interface with a 1GB Solid State drive to fit A300, A400 etc. machines is also available at the same price, but please contact us first to enquire about the specific model and availablity. We can also supply kits for the A3020 and A4000 models. For the A4000 this replaces the bulky (and noisy) 3.5" hard drive with a noiseless 500MB Solid State drive and costs just £15.90 plus £2 UK carriage. This can also be fitted to the A5000, A7000 or A7000+ or even a RiscPC. For the A3020 the kit also includes cables and fittings and costs just £17.90 plus £2 UK carriage. In both cases a 1GB CF card may be supplied but for RISC OS 3.1 it will be formatted to 512MB as this is the largest drive that this OS can accommodate. As the A7000 and RiscPC can accomodate bigger drives we can supply larger sizes if required. For example, a 4GB kit would cost £24.90. For RISC OS 3 the standard RISC OS 3 Utilities and Applications will be installed on the disc so it's ready to run on your machine. Prices are for delivery in UK (including CI). Outside UK please contact us first to ask for prices.
Updates for APDL IDE interfacesIn case you've lost your printed User Guide a HTML version is available for download. (39K ArcFS archive). IDE Format.The latest version of the IDEFormat program is 3.53. If you have anything earlier you are strongly advised to download this as it fixes a couple of bugs present in earlier versions with very large drives and supports E+ format for RISC OS 4. It has also been re-structured to simplify initialising single partitions. These contain the programs to create and program flash images (in case you've lost your Utility disc) with IDEFS v3.28 and IDEFiler v3.21 and ATAPI driver 0.28. IDEFS now has a configurable start-up delay to reduce the wait for people who have drives that respond quickly at switch on.
Although ATAPI driver 0.28 works with most modern drives it is not as compatible as 0.26, especially with older drives, such as not being detected at startup or errors during transfer of large data blocks. If you have any problems try the appropriate ATAPI driver below. These will only work with APDL interfaces. In each case this is the complete flash image for the appropriate interface with the latest IDEFS software and VProtect.
For users who want to build their own flash images and need the older ATAPI drivers the 'bare' ATAPI 0.26 and ATAPI 0.24 (ArcIn only, not Blitz) are also available. New software for ArcIn and Blitz interfacesThere have been a number of minor improvements but the most obvious outward ones are -
As these are intended to be used with RISC OS 4 and above the software no longer includes the DMAManager and CDFS modules as these are part of the OS ROM. This avoids the need to *unplug the DMAManager on the IDE interface with Kinetic machines and eliminates space taken up by redundant modules in the RMA. For the older, plug in EPROM version of the ARCIN interface. These are the cards which have two sockets on the PCB for data leads and a large EPROM with a white printed label. This brings the software up to the latest version, so it's a very worthwhile upgrade as although these cards might appear to be workong OK, even on RISC OS 6, some older versions could cause problems with larger hard drives and CD writers. We can supply exchange replacement EPROMs or, if you return your interface (not the leads) with payment we can fit the new EPROM and test it for you, which is the method we would advise. In each case the price of the upgrade is £9.50. For flash programmable interfaces the software will be sent by email, for interfaces fitted with an EPROM there is an additional charge of £1.50 for carriage. You can apply for the upgrade either by email to the usual APDL address, by phone (020 8778 2659) or by post. Don't forget to include payment details and the type of interface you have.  This web site © APDL 2008. Artwork produced using DrawWorks XL |
IDE Format 3.53.