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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Antiriad on January 02, 2005, 05:40:12 PM

Title: Amiga 500 AdIDE and 2.5 IDE HD Space Limit
Post by: Antiriad on January 02, 2005, 05:40:12 PM

Guys

I have a stock A500 and I was thinking about adding an Ad-IDE expanion. I have a 10GB IBM TravelStar 2.5 IDE Drive. Will this drive be able to work with this setup. What is the maximum drive space I can "see" with the AdIDE Hardware and Software.

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=553

Thanks

Mike

Title: Re: Amiga 500 AdIDE and 2.5 IDE HD Space Limit
Post by: Jope on January 02, 2005, 06:08:08 PM

I'd guess 4GB..

I'm running mine with a 1GB drive and it works fine.

Title: Re: Amiga 500 AdIDE and 2.5 IDE HD Space Limit
Post by: adolescent on January 02, 2005, 06:09:58 PM

Looks like 2.1G is the max.  (from the search)

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=10910

Title: Re: Amiga 500 AdIDE and 2.5 IDE HD Space Limit
Post by: B00tDisk on January 02, 2005, 11:30:28 PM

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Antiriad wrote:
Guys

I have a stock A500 and I was thinking about adding an Ad-IDE expanion. I have a 10GB IBM TravelStar 2.5 IDE Drive. Will this drive be able to work with this setup. What is the maximum drive space I can "see" with the AdIDE Hardware and Software.

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=553

Thanks

Mike

Well remember though - you can upgrade to a later OS revision and break the 4gb limit...

Title: Re: Amiga 500 AdIDE and 2.5 IDE HD Space Limit
Post by: adolescent on January 04, 2005, 05:04:53 PM

@bootdisk

The limit is probably a limit of the hardware itself, not an OS/FS limitation.

Title: Re: Amiga 500 AdIDE and 2.5 IDE HD Space Limit
Post by: TheMagicM on January 04, 2005, 07:15:45 PM

yea I dont think it the OS.. I could never get it to go beyond 2.1 gigs.

Title: Re: Amiga 500 AdIDE and 2.5 IDE HD Space Limit
Post by: Antiriad on January 04, 2005, 07:18:52 PM

Is this 2.1GB HD limit per partition on per Physical Drive Space?

Title: Re: Amiga 500 AdIDE and 2.5 IDE HD Space Limit
Post by: Azryl on January 04, 2005, 08:51:38 PM

If I remember correctly.. the ADIDE interface is a "single" connection PIO mode only.. which means ONE drive, as master. Thats it.. not the normal master/slave dual setup as per a normal IDE channel.

I'm having trouble with the ICD partition software working under kickstart 1.3 even with only relatively small 170meg HD.

I beleive the limit of 2.1gigabytes of storage space is the ADIDE and not AmigaOS

Az

Title: Re: Amiga 500 AdIDE and 2.5 IDE HD Space Limit
Post by: K7HTH on January 04, 2005, 10:33:00 PM

The AdIDE2 manual states it can support up to two IDE drives. Even in OS3.1, 2.1GB is the max recognized per drive.  Remember, there weren't many laptop drives pushing multiple GBs when this board was designed and 2GB is more than enough ANYONE needs on an A500.