Maximum RAM in an A500

[Cyberus]

I was just wondering what actually limits the RAM in an A500. I recently picked up a Midget Racer accelerator for my trusty old (almost 14 years!) A500, and it has an 8MB add on card, but what's to stop me populating my GVP Impact II card with even more RAM? I see everywhere that it can have a maximum of 9MB, but why? Is it just that this is all that was envisaged as being possible at the time?

Cheers

[Cyberus]

Whoa, overkill!

But why not buy an A2000, or is it because
a) like me you have a bit of an A500 fetish?
b) A500 mobos are ten a penny?

Cheers

[Cyberus]

So with an 030 accelerator, I should in theory be able to add more than 8MB....

[Cyberus]

I'm hoping to combine the RAM on the accelerator - 8MB, with the RAM from the machine and KCS Powerboard - 1MB, with another 4MB I have in GVP 50-pin SIMMS in my 'sidecar' SCSI controller, giving a total of 12 MB...

[Cyberus]

On my towerized+zorroed A500 with Blizzard 2060...

Hang on, doesn't the 2060 fit in the CPU fast slot, which the A500 doesn't have?

[Cyberus]

PaSha wrote:
The A500 side expansion slot is identical to the A2000 fast slot, except it's the opposite gender.

Hmm, the CPU fast slot is a 100 pin slot, pin compatible with Zorro II, but the CPU slot has a 28MHz (?) CLK (?) line doesn't it?