A4000 IDE / SCSI question

[Kurt]

Acard makes an IDE to SCSI converter they also make which is way cool a 4 IDE raid to SCSI adapter.
The Amiga sees the raid as one very large and fast SCSI drive.

I know two Amiga companies that sell it
and it works like a champ 120 gig SCSI drive is very expensive but a 120 IDE and a acard is
reasonable. The Acard should cost about $75.00
www.softhut.com (brought a 120gig "SCSI" drive from joe and it was a IDE with this adapter )
www.mrhardwarecomputers.com sell's the adapter with and without drives
both sell them.

Kurt

PS I know that Yamaha has sold some SCSI burners which are their standard IDE ones with this
interface attached for SCSI.

ohh very important if you use an kickstart 3.1  A4000 or A1200 without an IDE drive attached the machine waits for 25 secs during reboots for an IDE drive to spin up. If you run any sort of utility that makes your machine reboot during startup it will increase your boot time to by a minute or more.

so disable the IDE port using a two 4.7k resistors
tie pin 3 to 39 and pin 5 to 39.

real easy twist one side of the two resistors together stick that side into a cable at pin 39
take the other sides and stick them into pin 3 and 5. bingo major speedup of your boot time.

[Kurt]

temal SCSI DVD players don't need software for the system to see it. just plug and play buddy.
of course you need Amidogs movie player to play
the DVD.


kurt

[Kurt]

well the funny thing is I have a Pioneer SCSI DVD ROM drive hooked to my A1200T and the stupid thing worked out of the box. Put a DVD in it and bingo the system displays the DVD and the files on it. I am using AOS 3.9 and CacheCDFS. I never really thought about it. I brought the DVD ROM drive because it was cheap and I could not find a SCSI CDROM drive  besides Toshiba and I had three die in the previous 15 months. Not a very good track record in my book.

I brought the DVD rom because I wanted a CDROM drive for my A1200 and DVD was just a bonus thing to try.

I Just went and put The Lord of the Rings bonus DVD in the drive and hit list

8.Fellowship_bonus:> list
Audio_ts                           Dir ----rwed 27-Apr-02 09:08:39
Autorun.inf                         73 ----rwed 13-Jul-01 13:11:22
common                             Dir ----rwed 04-Apr-02 15:37:58
disc.id                            178 ----rwed 04-Apr-02 13:28:32
install.exe                     734208 ----rwed 13-Jul-01 13:28:24
Jacket_p                           Dir ----rwed 27-Apr-02 09:20:29
Readme.txt                       14914 ----rwed 13-Jul-01 13:11:22
Video_ts                           Dir ----rwed 27-Apr-02 09:20:27
win                                Dir ----rwed 04-Apr-02 13:24:04
4 files - 5 directories - 379 blocks used

It lists the files fine and stuff

cd directory works and stuff

curious will have to play some more

Kurt