A few questions about the GVP Impact A500 HD8+ Series II

[paul1981]

Nice, glad it's working!  Yeah, 20 years of not moving, heads probably were a little stuck, haha.

Any SCSI-to-CF or SCSI-to-SD solution that's compatible with the Amiga should work in the sidecar.  Personally I use a Mechware SCSI card reader in mine (gives slots for PCMCIA, SD, xD, CF, MemoryStick, and SmartMedia).  Excellent reader but now that the hoarders have gotten hold of them, you can usually only find them on ebay for a couple hundred $$ (Mechy sold them much cheaper when he had them).  I had to take the cover and faceplate off (and a little bit of snipping) to get it to fit.  Here's a couple pics, one from when I first installed it, and one from when I upgraded to 3.9 a few months ago:

Does your top cover actually still fit over all those gubbins?

[paul1981]

Yes sir!  

Pics with it closed:  http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=793381&postcount=12

Although I've tended to the habit of leaving the bottom screws out lately, so I can just "pop the hood" whenever I need to get at the other slots, LOL.  

Ah ok, but, I bet your anti-RF radiation shield doesn't fit does it?!

[paul1981]

What do you think?  

  :laughing:

I think you're irradiated. :laugh1:

[paul1981]

Here's a pic of me working on my Miggy.  

Haha! Nice one!

Btw, does anyone know how these dma scsi interfaces perform when compared with the kipper cf ram board that attaches to the 68000 socket? And I'm looking for a comparison between a sidecar without accelerator (but with ram) to make it fair. I'm just interested to know if a dma drive interface is noticeably better (and worth the expense) on a 68000 Amiga when compared with the kipper CF ide (PIO) ram board on the same 68000 Amiga.