Any way to make Tandem IDE bootable?

[LoadWB]

Amiga Resource shows Tandem as "no autobooting capability," or thereof.  Has anyone devised a hack to make this bootable?

[Piru]

Amiga Resource shows Tandem as "no autobooting capability," or thereof.  Has anyone devised a hack to make this bootable?

I'm afraid this won't happen.

It would require quite a bit more than just a hack: The device driver would need to be onboard ROM so that it would be available at the boot time.

Considering the board has no ROM to speak of (except the minimal stuff required for AUTOCONFIG(TM)) it's somewhat hard to add this feature. It also is unlikely the device driver is ROMable in the first place.

[Jiffy]

Forget it, not a chance. If you want something bootable: there are plenty nice SCSI/IDE cards to be found which will boot your Miggy nicely.

[LoadWB]

Meh, I figured as much.  Thanks.  I was planning to use this with some IDE flash stuff in my 2000.  It already has a Blizzard in it, I was just looking to play a little more.  Seems to be a nice card otherwise, though. :-)

[orange]

what about putting the device driver in kickstart ROM 3.1 instead of scsi.device (or something)?

its realy a pity, because its a very cheap card compared with others.

[dougal]

what about putting the device driver in kickstart ROM 3.1 instead of scsi.device (or something)?

its realy a pity, because its a very cheap card compared with others.

That would be a fantastic idea. That way the Amiga could be re-kicked using s-kick or something with the hacked kickstart rom file.