Amiga 1000 and Disk Drives

I am lookin for informatiom on connecting a hard
drive on to an Amiga 1000. What hardware and
software is involeved? I have several hard drives
(IDE) rangeing form 40MB to several GB.
Will they work with the right interface?
Please let me know.

[MasterOfReality]

No. A1000 has no IDE interface. You used to be able to get SCSI interfaces for it, but they're hard to come by now. A1000 has a Zorro 1 slot (side connector), but all modern i/f (and they're now rare) use Zorro 2 or 3. You're probably out of luck unless you can get one 2nd hand.

Take a look at the "Big book of Amiga Hardware" in the links section.

[pioneer]

The only expansion capability is a slot in the side. This can be used for memory expansion and other things. Any IDE drive and interface would have to attach there. The A1000 was not meant to be expanded internally so there isn't much room inside. I had an A1000 and I don't remember an IDE interface ever being developed for it. Expansion is so unwieldy that I don't know why anyone would attempt it.

Hi Jedgell,

In my opinion, best thing you can do with the 1000 is get a second hand Viper 520 card. This will give you a turbo board, 3.0 or 3.1 Roms, 8 MB of Ram plus an auto-boot IDE controller. If you have a 2,5" drive you can mount that on the viper.
There are two downsides to this, though. It will disable the expansion port at the rights side of the 1000 and you won't fit the diskdrive in anymore.

An alternative is to use an A500 controller. The expansion port of the 1000 is pin-compatible to the one of the 500, only the expansions are turned around, since on the 500 the port is on the left.

Cheers,
Ron

[JimS]

Many expansion boxes for the Amiga 500 will work on the 1000... It won't be pretty, since it will be backwards (the a1000 slot is on the other side from the 500) and a bit off the ground... You might have to put a book under it..

Depending on your skill with a soldering iron... there's a hack on aminet that lets you use one A2000 style card on a 500 or a 1000. I used a commercial 2-slot box with a CBM ram card and a Trumpcard SCSI hard drive on my 1000 for years.

I think I saw an IDE hack for the 500 on aminet.. that might work in a 1000..

Software wise, you'd probably want a rom card in the 1000, unless you want to use a kickstart floppy..

[amigamad]

I just bought a secondhand a1000 from ebay for a colectors item more than anything i cant find nothing much for the machine exept a new keyboard from www.eyetech.co.uk would an a500 memory expansion work on this machine as it only has 512k of memory.  :-D

[minator]

If you can find one an A590 will fit on the external connector backwards, it'll allow you to add 2MB RAM and includes a 20MB HD.  If it's too noisy smooth down the sharp edges of the fan, this reduces it a bit.

If you want to upgrade the speed you can add a 68010 which makes it about 10% faster.

I had this arrangement back er, long time ago...


2.5MB RAM & a 20MB HD made all my friends jelaous - those were the days!