Author Topic: CF-to-SATA hardware interface for RAW recording (fork) (Read 462672 times)

AnotherDave · « **Reply #125 on:** May 30, 2013, 05:43:26 PM »

Shame it isn't thunderbolt :-/ hehe

Like the concept/design though... a CF card with a port.

AnotherDave · « **Reply #126 on:** May 30, 2013, 05:46:16 PM »

Quote from: bumkicho on May 30, 2013, 05:42:56 PM

I was wondering if there is a similar product with USB 3 support. Would USB 3 have sufficient speed?

USB 3 would be idle. Much faster than the CF interface.

bumkicho · « **Reply #127 on:** May 30, 2013, 05:54:56 PM »

Even if there is a USB Host Adapter CF Card that supports USB 3, will Canon cameras be able to recognize it?

pascalc · « **Reply #128 on:** May 30, 2013, 06:28:28 PM »

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Quote from: g3gg0 on May 30, 2013, 02:07:00 PM

can you run this plugin with your disk attached?
http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=5471.msg36699#msg36699

I can load it with the card in the camera but I can't do it using the CF extender, the camera do not turn on

g3gg0 · « **Reply #129 on:** May 30, 2013, 09:03:45 PM »

can you plug in the card after the camera powered up and try then?

pascalc · « **Reply #130 on:** May 30, 2013, 10:19:46 PM »

I tried but nothing happened it still says no card in camera
It's possible with the 1DC but unfortunately the 1DC is out of the game

g3gg0 · « **Reply #131 on:** May 30, 2013, 10:25:58 PM »

uhm did you run the menu entry i quoted in my post?
what did it say?

pascalc · « **Reply #132 on:** May 31, 2013, 12:31:38 AM »

1 ML may22 on a small SD card running
2 CF extender inserted with 32 Go Sandisk previously formatted by the camera
3 "Read CF details" launched
=>
1 ML menu close within 1 seconds
2 Screen turns black (working but showing nothing) in two other seconds and all buttons and wheels are frozen
3 Turn off the camera but screen remains black
4 Have to remove the battery to shut it down

But... now when I insert the extender without the SD card, the camera turns on after 5 seconds and ask to format the card. When doing it, it says it's impossible.

g3gg0 · « **Reply #133 on:** May 31, 2013, 01:26:09 AM »

okay thanks

Redrocks · « **Reply #134 on:** May 31, 2013, 05:11:36 AM »

http://www.amazon.com/Socket-Communications-100-Ethernet-Card/dp/B00005RZOZ

http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/08/20/aging.standard.is.still.ahead.of.most.core.networking/

There must be one company out there who can capitalise on our needs. Or maybe the product in my Amazon link could be modified to channel the cf readout (to sata) before it's converted to ethernet?

@pascalc Nice efforts, shame it didn't work out.

Redrocks · « **Reply #135 on:** May 31, 2013, 05:39:14 AM »

http://pcmonde.co.uk/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=5&product_id=850009&mpnid=0

>Not only is the Instant Wireless network CF card easy to install and use, it's also powerful.
>You can send and receive data at speeds up to 11 Mbps.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000652LU6/?tag=trex0a-20

Possible candidates for modding?

ptunstall · « **Reply #136 on:** May 31, 2013, 06:45:09 AM »

Honestly I think something like this will require some custom made interface components. I am getting an Arduino soon for another film related project so I will do some digging about on the web for anyone else who has tried creating an IDE controller with Arduino.

Found this already.

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/725/creating-a-compact-flash-controller

ptunstall · « **Reply #137 on:** May 31, 2013, 07:06:08 AM »

I've also reached out to this guy: http://sbc.rictor.org/index.html since he seems to have a lot of experience with these types of devices.

This forum thread is where I found him. ay shed some new light on this thing: http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?p=8343&sid=a06dc948bd456b223cf8a93d175d37e1

Redrocks · « **Reply #138 on:** May 31, 2013, 07:57:36 AM »

Quote from: ptunstall on May 31, 2013, 07:06:08 AM

I've also reached out to this guy: http://sbc.rictor.org/index.html

Great find. This guy might get us there.

ptunstall · « **Reply #139 on:** May 31, 2013, 04:47:04 PM »

So the guy replied. Said Arduino wouldn't be the best bet due to speeds we are trying to achieve and suggested we use a faster chip board like raspberry pi which is more complicated in terms of software BUT has a simple distro of linux running on it and a 700MHz ARM chip. However the guy did say that this type of thing was way out of his league. I will research a bit more!

Question: How is the camera interfacing with the CF card? Is it IDE or one of the other types?

Binnyang · « **Reply #140 on:** May 31, 2013, 05:09:59 PM »

Hi all
I am a user to ML who is really interested in filming RAW video based on external storage.
I just like to mention that we actually have an COS solution from Canon

http://cpn.canon-europe.com/content/product/accessories/wft_e7_wireless_file_transmitter.do

With the wifi grip, just install a fast CF card to camera, and use 802.11n or Gigabit LAN to transmit file after the shoot. It is really easy to write a daemon service to handle this, and opens up a world of possibility in terms of hardware adaption.

Method 1. Get a 32 GB 1000x CF card, a wifi grip, and stream to the recorded picture to this either continously or after each shoot.
http://www.hypershop.com/CloudFTP-p/cftp-black.htm

Method 2. Same thing. With ethernet (NAS Anyone

ptunstall · « **Reply #141 on:** May 31, 2013, 05:22:32 PM »

802.11n is rated at max of 150Mbits a second that 150/8=18.75MB/s which is far to slow. Gigabit LAN is theoretically possible to pass 125MB/s BUT would require about the same amount of work to make a CF to SSD controller to make it work at those speed continuous.

Grey_Sally · « **Reply #142 on:** May 31, 2013, 05:33:18 PM »

Not to mention that the WFT-E7 is plugged into the camera via its USB2 port... The older cameras (5D2, 40D, 50D) had proprietary connectors on the base, but I doubt those would be any faster... or easier to figure out

Binnyang · « **Reply #143 on:** May 31, 2013, 06:07:24 PM »

Ah
It's too bad that its USB based. I thought it was something faster.
I also want to clarify that I am not proposing real time capture into an external media. As a hobby film maker, I just want a cheap way to store my file in the field without forking over 10k worth of memory. I can do that with this grip attachment by grabbing picture from CF card when the camera is not in use. Much easier than carrying a laptop and swapping cards.

Samuel H · « **Reply #144 on:** June 01, 2013, 04:54:34 PM »

I still have a few parts missing, but I'm playing with what I've got. I've found that at least in some IDE-to-CF adapters there are a few extra connections beyond what this shows: http://rumkin.com/reference/aquapad/media/CFtoIDE.pdf
For example, in the one I've analyzed, in the CF connector, pins 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 25 are not "unconnected", but "tied to pins 1 and 50" (which then go to ground). Not the case for pin 24, though.
This may mean that there's something missing in that pdf, or, maybe more likely, that some parts are not actually made to exactly meet the full specification, which could explain the issues some here are having.
This http://pinouts.ru/Memory/CompactFlash_pinout.shtml says that those pins are used for the address bus; the CF-to-IDE connector described in the pdf would leave them unused, but if they're linked together and to ground the camera may freak out and shut down.

pascalc · « **Reply #145 on:** June 01, 2013, 05:57:39 PM »

Hi Samuel, Can I ask you which CF extender did you choose ?
On mine, the link between the card and the exterior socket is a 40 pins ribbon. Some connectors are merged (surely the grounds ones). It works in a Lexar usb 3 card reader on my computer (with slow transfer rate) I don't understand why it doesn't on the camera.
I would like to try something with all the pins directly connected to the external socket but it seems to do not exists.

Cigam · « **Reply #146 on:** June 01, 2013, 06:17:36 PM »

I am not only looking into increasing storage capacity but also into increasing possible write speeds.

Would it be possible that Magic Lantern writes a specific amount of frames onto the SD card?
Let's say we have a CF card with write speeds of 90MB/s and a SD card with write speeds of 30MB/s.

Now could ML use both interfaces? Writing 30MB/s to SD and the rest to CF? This way we could achieve much higher speeds.

Samuel H · « **Reply #147 on:** June 01, 2013, 08:38:13 PM »

Quote from: pascalc on June 01, 2013, 05:57:39 PM

Hi Samuel, Can I ask you which CF extender did you choose ?
On mine, the link between the card and the exterior socket is a 40 pins ribbon. Some connectors are merged (surely the grounds ones). It works in a Lexar usb 3 card reader on my computer (with slow transfer rate) I don't understand why it doesn't on the camera.
I would like to try something with all the pins directly connected to the external socket but it seems to do not exists.

I'm trying to build my own ribbon adapter. Crazy, I know: the CF connectors are SO SMALL!
I bought a cheap cf-card-on-ide-bus adapter to have as an extra reference where I can see what's connected to what in a working product.

pascalc · « **Reply #148 on:** June 01, 2013, 10:03:58 PM »

I was thinking to do the same thing, going directly from CF to IDE.
You have special equipment to solder such small pins ?

Samuel H · « **Reply #149 on:** June 02, 2013, 12:51:54 AM »

No, just lots of patience, some ingenuity, and a couple of CF cards to trash. I know the most likely outcome is a useless adapter...

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Author Topic: CF-to-SATA hardware interface for RAW recording (fork) (Read 462672 times)