Speed comparisons A500 etc.

[pyrre]

not to hijack the tread. but i am in a bit of the same situation. i have a beloved derringer 030 (50mhz) and i really love the speed and the 32mb ram it adds. however. i use the trumphcard sidecar expansion. with a outdated scsi controller and a dying hdd. and i have tried all my scsi drive. but the controller wont recognize them. in another tread im told the controller wont accept any disk larger than 300~ 500mb. my smallest drive is 1 gig. and the sidecar is annoyingly large.
Is there any ide controller made for the internal cpu slot that is compatible with accelerators?

As for the tread. the derringer performs really well in the 500+.
i dont remember the number in my head. but the graph in sysinfo is close to the performance of an a1200 with blizzard 1230.

Now my a500+ is picked appart in bits and pieces for upgrading and fixing the battery leakage on the main board. it is stopped. and i hope to add a battery of the newer coin style. (have some schematics to work with..)
And i want to hack the derringer to accept 128mb ram

But my main interest is to find a ide controller that can sit between the derringer and the cpu slot... anyone got any clues?

[pyrre]

The Vampire 500 comes with IDE build in - and is probably the fastest accelerator for A500.

Yes, i am aware of that. but that will render the derringer unused. and it is out of the question.

Some thoughts:

If your Derringer and Trumphcard play nice together, that may be the rare pearl to hang on to.

Hmm.. might be. but i cant use my action replay...

I've never worked with a Trumphcard, but, it sound like it needs an updated ROM to allow more modern sized HDs (at least up to 4 Gigs).  You could contact TJLazer on this site to see if he has an update for this interface.

The sidecar itself is basically just an adapter that adds two zorro II slots. not including a buster chip, though. have no clue to what that means.
But the controller is the IVS Trumpcard. can be used in A2000 as well.
To my surprise i find a DKB spitfire inside the sidecar. cant remember purchasing it. Anybody got any info on the spitfire?

Or, you could find a smaller SCSI HD.  300 MB sounds small by today's standards, but, for tightly coded Amiga software, it may be very livable depending on your purpose for the system.

I have tried. but no success. the only 300mb quantum drive i found (on a dump) was dead. Don't know if ide adapters will work. and another problem. the prep tools of the controller is seriously confusing. and you cant use hdtoolbox. (AFAIK)

ICD made an IDE interface that sandwiched under the 68000.  I've never tried it, but I'll bet its ROM is old, too..  There seems to be NO demand for their designs today.  That may speak volumes.

I had a ICD adIDE before. but i sold it, never got payed and I cant get the hold of the guy who "bought" it....