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Offline utri007

I have same hardware wich is powered through A500. It has a 4gb HP hard drive and I haven't had any problems.
ACube Sam 440ep Flex 800mhz, 1gb ram and 240gb hd and OS4.1FE
A1200 Micronic tower, OS3.9, Apollo 060 66mhz, xPert Merlin, Delfina Lite and Micronic Scandy, 500Gb hd, 66mb ram, DVD-burner and WLAN.
A1200 desktop, OS3.9, Blizzard 060 66mhz, 66mb ram, Ide Fix Express with 160Gb HD and WLAN
A500 OS2.1, GVP+HD8 with 4mb ram, 1mb chip ram and 4gb HD
Commodore CDTV KS3.1, 1mb chip, 4mb fast ram and IDE HD
 

Offline utri007

Re: A few questions about the GVP Impact A500 HD8+ Series II
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2025, 09:19:16 PM »
Upgrading to 2MB Chip RAM is possible, but it requires the 8375 Agnus chip along with some motherboard modifications (easiest if your A500 is a Rev. 6A board). Without this Agnus, 2MB Chip isn’t an option.

On the other hand, 16MB Fast RAM and a 68030 CPU upgrade are not possible with the GVP Impact A500 HD8+, the card supports a maximum of 8MB Fast RAM and has no provisions for a 68030/68882 accelerator.

For modern video output, the Indivision ECS V2 is the recommended choice.

I’m not sure how straightforward it is to replace the original SCSI hard drive with a CF card on this controller, but as an alternative you could look into something like BlueSCSI, which is inexpensive and uses SD cards.
ACube Sam 440ep Flex 800mhz, 1gb ram and 240gb hd and OS4.1FE
A1200 Micronic tower, OS3.9, Apollo 060 66mhz, xPert Merlin, Delfina Lite and Micronic Scandy, 500Gb hd, 66mb ram, DVD-burner and WLAN.
A1200 desktop, OS3.9, Blizzard 060 66mhz, 66mb ram, Ide Fix Express with 160Gb HD and WLAN
A500 OS2.1, GVP+HD8 with 4mb ram, 1mb chip ram and 4gb HD
Commodore CDTV KS3.1, 1mb chip, 4mb fast ram and IDE HD