A500 expansion taken-need CD Rom

[Miked]

How do you get an Amiga 500 to boot off the hard drive hooked up to the expansion slot, while also using a Commodore A570 CD Rom?  Or am I in trouble?  

-Miked

[Matt_H]

Going to need some more details. What expansion slot?
If you've added a SCSI controller to the A570, a properly prepared RDB disk with a bootable partition and installed system should do the trick.

[Oli_hd]

What expansion slot?

I think he means the side expansion slot on the A500. :-)

as Matt said though, you can add an SCSI interface to the A570 or use a harddrive controller with an external SCSI CD-Rom. (The down side of the SCSI CD-Rom is that you wont have a CDTV compatiable unit.

Other than that most none Commodore SCSI controllers did have a pass-through, so just dont use an A590.

[motrucker]

....or choose a hard drive expansion unit that has a pass through connection. If I remember right, the Supra units do this.

[Miked]

Thanks guys.  After reading my post, I realize I wasn't all too clear.  But I got my answer

On a side note, whats the fastest CD ROM drive that should be run on an A500?  I know the A570 is a 1x drive, I would think that the computer could handle a slightly higher speed without any ill effects.

-Miked

[jkirk]

seeing as cdrom drives are typically slower than hard drives & the cdrom & hardrive will not go any faster than the interface. i would assume you could put most any speed cdrom drive with no ill effects.

i probably wouldn't put more than 8x though(ay more seems too much like overkill) but if you get it cheap. :-D