Found out that connecting DVD drive to a Vampire would slow the IDE down too much. So looking for another way to connect the drive to A500
Funny, I was just logging on Amiga.org to ask the same question.
Like you, I have a vampire with the Checkmate 1500+ with the the zorro II/86 pin backplane.
I tried a buddha controller 20th anniversary in the zorro II slot. It causes the Amiga to hang at boot.
I also tried a trumpcard pro. it also causes the amiga to hang at boot if I have autoboot on. If I turn autoboot off, on the trumpcard, I can get the vampire / A500 to boot. I have not tried to mount devices later.
Oddly enough I could get the trumpcard pro to autoboot in an A2000 with the vampire in it.
The buddha in the same a2000/vampire would not autoboot, but would not stop the vampire from autobooting.
Just FYI, I tried both the trumpard pro and the buddha in the A500/checkmate with zorro II and no vampire (ie just an 68000) and everything works fine with both zorro II cards.
Thanks this is good information to know, and has saved me spending even more money (Checkmate has ended up costing me a lot in extra parts , including the case getting on for £900 )
I easily spent more than this in the past on my A1200 and stuff
I think I am going to wait and see. Vampire on its way from USA so will report back once I have all the parts will be able to tell the impact and If I can live with it. Probelm is have a FastaATA in my amiga 1200 so anyhting will seem a fair bit slower I think. And over the years got used to 1200MBS on my macs lol so anyhting will seem slow
