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Re: Internal hard drive options for A1000/A500?
« on: November 04, 2010, 02:31:26 PM »
What you seek is every A1000 owners wet dream. Those internal IDE adapters are incredibly rare to come by and the one Tone007 pointed to is not really designed for the A1000. I had one and in order for it to fit, you'd have to remove the CF adapter end of it or build yourself a 68000 displacement board. Then it requires you to have at least Kickstart 3.1 in ROM for it to Autoboot. OR be prepared to patch the needed scsi.device into Kickstart 1.3. Next, you'd have to solder 2 wires (INT2 and something else) to the mainboard. Lastly, you'd have to remove the internal 3.5" floppy if you're going to mount a HD in its place or perhaps, squeeze a 2.5" drive in somewhere. If you remove the floppy though, now you'd better have Kickstart 2.x or 3.x inside so that you could boot off an external drive. ICD made something called the Shuffle Board that routes the internal drive to external (good luck finding one though). But I guess if you built yourself a 68000 displacement board, you could try using a CF card as a HD. And while you're at it, there's diagrams out there that show how to solder a Kickstart chip to your CPU.  

Basically, as you can see and after all these years - there still isn't a practical internal HD solution for the A1000. Fortunately, external boxes are more readily available and there's also some Slingshots floating around that allow you to use Zorro II cards (A2091 for example) with your A1000. Not exactly the most elegant of solutions, but...  :lol:
 

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Re: Internal hard drive options for A1000/A500?
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2010, 03:40:31 PM »
Quote from: haywirepc;589319

I hear that adapter referenced works great in an amiga 500 or 2000 though.... in the 1000 it would work, but its a BIG project.


Exactly. The CFIDE68k board did work splendidly (did I just say that?) in my A500. Just had to solder a couple of wires near the expansion bus was all. Oh and of course, I had a 3.1 ROM in it. Worked just as advertised!
 

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Re: Internal hard drive options for A1000/A500?
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2010, 06:11:58 PM »
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Looks like he hasn't responded in a while to his own thread.


You should e-mail him directly. That's how I got through and purchased a couple of his boards. BTW: last we spoke, said he was working on a 2mb-8mb + CF<>IDE board. His latest batch may well have RAM built in now. Awesome!