There is no true USB hardware for the Amiga. There was one from icomp.de but it was discontinued due to lack of parts, I think it was called Rapid Road. I have the buddha IDE adapter and a IDE2SD adapter and with a mount file and using crossDOS or fat95 to format a 4gb SD card to FAT32 and use my windozzz 11 pc to transfer large files and it works well (see my post on forum.icomp.de search A3000T for my posts). The problem I have that I must reboot my Amiga each time I need to see it. What I need is it to act as a removeable device! I have tried diskchange command and OS3.2 QA and found how to completely remove the device on page 28 "MOUNT HD5: SHUTDOWN and ASSIGN HD5: DISMOUNT", this works if I don't remove the SD card. If I remove and reinstall the SD card and re mount it gives me DH5: unreadable error! I need it to act as a floppy or CD device. If anyone on this forum can help, please reply. Note HD5: is listed in OS3.2 QA, I use ASD for the name of the device.
On the buddha (or Ripple) IDE adapter I can use IDE2SD, IDE2SATA, IDE2CF (Compact Flash) HD CD/DVD type storage media I bought them on eBay very cheap. When installing the IDE adapters be sure to align the key in the notch, correctly. I installed an IDE2SATA and then connected to a SATA2eSATAp card and I can use an external SATA CD/DVD or any device to my A3000D, A3000T (I have 3 of them, A1200, A4000D over an eSATAp cable and transfer data to any of them great for OS backups. I do have a A2000 but haven't installed an IDE adapter in it, yet. I have found a Ripple IDE adapter for around $80 which also works great it uses lide.device.
Did you know the amiga will read DVD disks, that is 4.7GB of data you can transfer but you need a large amount of fast memory to do this.

My system, A3000T, Phase5 68060/50, 64mb fast ram with 16mb on board ram 8mb total, Cybergraphics card, buddhaIDE adapter, Ripple IDE adapter 8 total IDE devices on board SCSI with JAZ drive. The A3000D buddha IDE adapter, IDE2SATA adapter eSATAp and SATA CD/DVD drive. Will have a A3640 as soon as I can cool it. My A1200 has an IDE2SATA adapter with eSATAp adapter for external SATA devices and internal 2GB SD card for storage. My A2000 with GVP SCSI HD and 8m ram. My 2 A3000T's with Video Toasters are working and will have A3640 cards in them.

Mountlist file.
Activate = 0
Device= buddhascsi.device (lide.device for Ripple adapter) must be in the L directory.
Unit = 2 (change for your unit number, remember the first IDE port is 0 and 1 the second IDE port is 2 and 3 i.e. master slave)
DosType = 0x4D534402 (for FAT32)

Do not put this in your DEVS DOSdrivers mountlist, I manually mount this.
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@a3000d/t

The IDE interface is not made for hot-plug. It's different for CD/DVD/ZIP/JAZZ drives where you only remove the disk and the device with all its electronics stays in place. With CF/SD cards and harddrives you remove the whole unit and IDE just does not support this.

You should seek for an alternate solution. I am not sure if they are still available, but some years ago they made SD cards with built-in WIFI. With such a card you could share files without removing the card. The Windows PC can access files via WIFI and the Amiga has the card mounted as a FAT partition.

https://cdn.transcend-info.com/files/Manual/WiFiSD_Manual_v2.0_EN.pdf

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Thank you for your reply. This is for an Amiga vintage 1990s computers. The IDE is the only high-speed device available using the adapters. They do not come with any networking hardware; it can be added at great cost. To my knowledge there no wifi hardware available. Getting the Amiga on the internet would be dangerous as there is limited if any, anti-virus software. I am hoping for a simple software fix as the adapters do work and cheap at around $30 all I am looking for is to KILL the device and handler so it can be remounted with the mountlist file. I am NOT looking for a hot swap fix as the IDE device does not support this, but the SD, CF adapters do, I tried this on an old windozzz Biostar MB with IDE ports running windozzz 10.


I found this in the OS3.2 install CD FAQ :

2.15 * Is there a way to completely dismount a device?

A user can now completely and *cleanly* dismount a device by following
the example below:

MOUNT HD5: SHUTDOWN && ASSIGN HD5: DISMOUNT

The ASSIGN DISMOUNT command will typically leave the handler running,
while MOUNT SHUTDOWN attempts to shut it down. Note that not all
handlers can be shut down, though those coming with 3.2 should
support it, including CrossDOS, CDFS, the FFS, the port-handler, the
queue-handler, the aux-handler and the con-handler.

Thanks for your reply.

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