CC0: SRAM, and booting from CC0: - Questions

[doctorq]

Interesting, will look it up. Wonder how they did that..., thanks.

EDIT ah - cool:

http://www.bboah.com/index.php?action=artikel&cat=59&id=2508&artlang=en&highlight=PCMCIA

I got one of these last week, and have it all modified and installed. It contains a ROM of some sort which launces a program in order to mount the harddisk partitions and another program to hand over the rest of the booting to the actual harddrive. A drive icon for the ROM contents are placed on the desktop after loading the OS.

It's basicly just contains the boot floppy mentioned earlier; I have made the same and it is quite useful, not only for setting up an OS, but for gaming as well if one for some reason doesn't want to use a harddrive (or haven't got the correct Kickstart version for A600 for instance.)

[doctorq]

Wonder what the max size of HD you can put in a Commodore Overdrive is?  (And why anyone would bother)

I have tested with a 1 GB CF card and it currently has a ~850 MB Seagate drive installed. Access time is more or less the same as the onboard controller.

Why bother? No particular reason since the two computers that can use it already has a controller. I believe the device was aimed at people not wanting to open up their Amiga and therefore loosing their warranty and/or people wanting to use 3.5" drives instead of 2.5" drives, as 3.5" drives were a lot cheaper than 2.5" drives back in the days.