IDE on A500?

[roguebeck]

I saw this in another thread and wanted to know, what device would one need to hook an IDE hard drive to an A500?
 
What would the size limitations be?

BinoX wrote:
I think the only difference (and correct me if I'm wrong)

Is that the 2.05 version has the A600s IDE device driver in it and the 2.04 doesn't..

[downix]

A controller.  There were a few manufactured for the A500 back in the day, no idea if you can find any nowadays.  One would not be difficult to manufacture however.

[motorollin]

If you can't find one for sale then you could try building this. I have no idea how well it works, I just found it in an Aminet search.

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moto

[orange]

it works

[LoadWB]

If you can find one, the AdIDE.  I have one but have yet to use it, though I have plans.  I'm told it works very well.

[derringer3]

Size limitations:

It's depends on the controller. Mine is a custom hungarian autoboot ide controllrel with 4 ram slot. When i bought it ages ago, it was a miracle for me. At that time of course i use it only with 100-200MB hdds.

But checked last year it could handle a 80 GB (yes gigabyte) samsung hdd without problem. (but can't see most of the 2-3 gb hdd's.)
 

[roguebeck]

I'd say I'm better off trying to squeeze a larger SCSI hard drive into my Trumpcard500.

If I try to build my own IDE interface, bad things will happen. Of course i won't notice anything is wrong until smoke's pouring out of my A500.