Heya!
This is my 1st post here so please bare with me! :-)
I have hooked up my old Amiga 1000 (yeah!). After a few glitches here and there everything seems to be in good working order now.
I have a Golem 2MB box and a MacroSystem Omti-board and controller + a big 5.25" harddisk. I also have a AdIDE interface which I used on my Amiga 500 back in the days which I would like to install in the Amiga 1000 instead so I can get rid of my current harddisk interface/disk etc. Therefore I have a few questions which I hope someone can answer.
1. How can I determine if it is AdIDE or AdIDE2? What are the differences?
2. If I recall correctly (from some 15 years back), the AdIDE interface when hooked up in my Amiga 500 and with a harddrive of approx. 40MB & Kickstart 1.3 used up a lot of chipmem (too much really). If that is true, is it possible to upgrade the ROM of the board (I have a label on top of one component of my AdIDE board which reads '9a2a') or configure that harddrive differently or something to save as much chipmem as possible? The MacroSystem is quite good when it comes to the use of the chipmem.
3. Can the harddisk and the ROM be disabled using the mouse button(s) during reset or something?
4. Are there limitations to the ROM so you cannot use too big disks or can that be "work-around" these days?
5. I was thinking of connecting a 2.5" harddisk, I should be able use a standard PC 3.5" to 2.5" harddisk adapter to convert the data signals I guess, right?
TIA!
