Several question regarding CD32

[motorollin]

Yes as Andy said you just need a CF to IDE adapter. They're very cheap and will allow you to use a CF card just like a hard drive on an expanded CD32 (or any Amiga with an IDE interface). Just search eBay for "compact flash IDE" and you'll find loads.

Edit -
Sorry just re-read your post and realised what you're asking. No, I don't think you can do that. It might work if you could make a mountlist pointing to the device and mount it, but it certainly won't boot from it.

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moto

[motorollin]

DyLucke wrote:
I thought CD32 was IDE itself

It is. But AFAIK the CD32 ROM cannot boot from a hard disk attached to the internal IDE interface.

DyLucke wrote:
Nobody thought about some adapter using the IDE built-in
interface?? Maybe this is to ask too much.  :lol:

I think it would require a change to the CD32 ROM.

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moto

[motorollin]

Hmm, ok there might be a way. I think the CD32's CD drive is on cd.device unit 0. Assuming there is a standard IDE header on the board and you are able to access a slave device through cd.device unit 1, you might be able to create a bootable CD32 disc with a startup-sequence which mounts the hard drive on cd.device unit 1 (if it's not automatically mounted), then assign SYS:, C:, S: etc to the hard drive and then execute S:startup-sequence (which would execute the startup-sequence on the hard drive). You would obviously then have to have the CD in the drive to make it boot.

I have no idea if that would actually work. It's just an idea.

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moto

[motorollin]

This page details how to create a bootable CD. I haven't actually tested the instructions so I don't know if they actually work.

http://acdldp.emuunlim.com/bootablecdr.shtml

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moto