A500 zorro to Buddha? possible?

[alexh]

If you are lucky enough to ever find one get an ICD Trifecta EC 500.

It's an A500 IDE controller that connects to the side edge connector. It has good styling (same shape as A500) and it has  8Mbyte FAST RAM and is the fastest IDE drive for the A500 reaching peak speeds exceeding the Zorro theoretical limit of 3.5Mbyte/sec using "hidden DMA transfers"!

[doctorq]

Argus wrote:
@doctorq

Nice idea, but they don't autoboot.

Ah, and me thinking I came up with a great plan :-( Thanks for correcting me.

[alexh]

Not sure if there is enough room in a regular kickstart ROM, but you can use a FlashROM Zorro board

[glitch]

Hi x56h34,

    I've got another one of the side-of-A500-Zorro adapters almost ready to go -  I just have to test it.  Hopefully I'll have it up on eBay soon.

Cheers!

[doctorq]

Hmm, since I have a spare zorro ethernet card laying around, maybe I should try to get hold of one as well.

Has most of the adaptors got pass through for external harddrives?

[glitch]

Hi,

    The one I have comes out of the side of the A500 - horizontal - and has a vertical Zorro connector.  I've plugged in RAM cards, A2091's etc. and they all work.  The one I'm fixing has a second Zorro connector so that a 2nd board could be connected and lie flat.  I'll see if this works!!!

I'll try to post a picture if I get time.

[Lemmink]

I don`t know if the A500 Buddha is ready yet. You might want to ask Jens Schönfeld. As a spinoff to the Phönix relaunch Jens offered to make a Buddha specifically for the Phönix Frontslot. As this slot isn`t that much different from the A500 sideexpansionslot an A500 version was planed also and should have ben ready shortly after the Phönix version. I haven`t followed that brach of the discusson closely so I don`t know for sure if it is available, but I have my Phönix Buddha here for quite some time now.

[cv643d]

I want to run the harddrive internal in the A500. I never liked the sideslot expansions for the A500, makes the computer so wide :-/

The Buddha is a relatively cheap alternative compared to getting an old second hand external SCSI A500 harddrive. And then I really like Jens hardware, he seems to make lots of good and cheap products.

[Miked]

Hmm, an interesting thread.  I've just gotten myself a double zorro connector for my Amiga 500, so I, too, am looking for an internet solution and rtg.  It seems like the Xsurf3 card makes sense (and I could add a CD Rom drive off the card)  

Now the only problem is making this computer look "nice" on the desk.  It will look kind of freakish with exposed cards sticking out of the left side.

-Miked