A500 IDE interface, building one.

[AmigaFreak]

Hello, I went to Aminet and downloaded the a500ide.lha package, and looked at the schematic for the board, or atleast thats what I think Im looking at. I dont understand it. Can someone explain what parts I need to buy to build it. or show me a more clear schematic?

Thanks,

Josh

[koaftder]

AmigaFreak wrote:
Hello, I went to Aminet and downloaded the a500ide.lha package, and looked at the schematic for the board, or atleast thats what I think Im looking at. I dont understand it. Can someone explain what parts I need to buy to build it. or show me a more clear schematic?

Thanks,

Josh

Everything you need you  should be able to get at Jameco. If not theres digikey, mouser, arrow, etc.

On http://www.students.tut.fi/~leinone3/ide/

The pcb drawing clearly shows where each part goes. you could get some copper clad board and a tape kit and etch your own... It would be easier if you could get a prototyping board with that edge connector though, then you could wire wrap the thing together.

[B00tDisk]

Idle curiosity makes me wonder how you'd make it so that it autoboots...

[koaftder]

Would this IDE thing work on an a1000? I guess wb 1.3 would have a pretty nasty size restriction though.... It would be real nice to not have to keep all my stuff on floppies.

[InTheSand]

Hi,

Kickstart and Workbench 1.3 use FFS for hard drives, so I'd imagine the limit would be for a 4Gb drive.

As for auto-booting, that's very unlikely! Then again, you're not going to be auto-booting anything from an A1000!  :-)

 - Ali

[Argus]

Actually, there were a few add-on boards that allow you to put 2.04 roms and improve upon the WOM system of the A1000. There's also a rather complicated hack that requires replacing several pal chips on the m/b to fit a 2.04 rom iirc.

Do a search for 'Frankenthousand' to see a really modded A1000 setup.