Zorro III USB - Deneb

[Darrin]

Boot_WB wrote:
Think of the low priced peripherals that will be available to you...CHEAP usb mice, keyboards, thumb drives, hard disks etc etc. No need to spend $40-$50 for Amiga keyboard or mouse adapters or buy expensive used Amiga keyboards & mice. A good basic Logitech usb optical wheelmouse costs about $20. Just plug it in.

Exactly my thought.  I wanted to add a Zorro ethernet card to my A2000 and those things are not cheap even off eBay.  I can almost recover 70% of the cost of this card by just using a cheap USB ethernet adapter instead (I hope Amigakit look into selling tried and tested add-ons with their usual excellent software bundles).

A3000 owners will love the ability to add a cheap external slimline CD ROM drive too.

Booting off external drives is the icing on the cake.

[Darrin]

alexh wrote:
You want to run a USB stack AND a TCP/IP stack when accessing ethernet? You have too much CPU power ;-)

Assuming I'm only using the Deneb for ethernet and occasional access to memory sticks (sticking to the onboard SCSI HD & CD ROM), do you expect it to be that bad?

[Darrin]

OK, here's a handy looking gizmo:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=2329300&sku=M501-1220&SRCCODE=WEBBP655

Does anyone see any reason why this wouldn't work with the Deneb to read from old Amiga 2.5"/3.5" IDE drives and/or copy an OS installation back to one?

It should work for connecting a SATA drive too... and only $20.

How about using it with WinUAE for coonecting a real Amiga HD to a PC?