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Re: IDE A500
« on: November 25, 2008, 06:39:10 PM »
If you read his page, he doesnt state that its incompatable with all accelerators. Just accelerators that use the adress space that is normally allotted to the A600 IDE interface..

Heres another concern though.. All the A500 accelerators Ive ever seen that go inside the machine BARELY fit.. By the time you stick the IDE board in, and plug the accellerator on top of it, your not gonna get the upper case half to go back on... If your A500 is towerized, then this is probably not an issue..

What would be interesting is whether or not it works with GVP sidecar mounted accelerators (eg. the A530)...  The A530 already has a hardisk controller, but it is an autoconfig device on the zorro bus, and shouldnt conflict with the A600 style IDE interface adress range. Many A530 owners who currently use SCSI hardisks may be interested in the IDE interface to use with CF cards to swap data with their PC..
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