wanted amiga dinousar who knows his stuff

[TomJ]

My nephew when he was younger picked up a used amiga 500 with a board mounted in it possibly spartan boot not sure the software progam he used for it was spartan boot. still looking for the board had a wire to the cpu

with it is a case with to hard drives and a board with a software solutions sticker and an adaptec chip ...

anyway anyone know what this is? without the extra board can it be hooked up to get to the old hard drives?

[Tension]

Doesn't look like an A500

[tone007]

Looks like something that might hook up to an old MFM hard drive.  I've seen adapters to hang what looked like PC compatible 8 bit MFM hard drive controllers off of the side of an A500.  I threw a couple sets out recently, MFM isn't worth the trouble.  That one also appears to be in need of some cleaning/oxidization removal, though it's hard to tell with those pictures.

[Plaz]

Definitely looks like an MFM HD controller. Way long time ago there were do-it-yourself projects to connect such drives to Amigas. This may be a case of some homebrew hardware. http://aminet.net/package/docs/hard/AHD

Funny I don't feel like a fossil... yet

Plaz

[save2600]

I've got a 20mb MFM HD and a 2090 card if anyone "needs" it     lol

[joekster]

I had one of these way back in the day. It is a scsi to mfm/rll bridge. It came with my cltd scsi controller. Sugest you ditch the board and hook up a scsi drive directly. I believe that there was "special" software used to configure and format thru the board.

[TomJ]

i didn't think there might even be a scsi drive in it in can try that whit my dataflyer and see how i do unless somebody thinks i'll fry another amiga not something i want to do. is this other drive IDE or MFM whatever that is.

[B00tDisk]

i didn't think there might even be a scsi drive in it in can try that whit my dataflyer and see how i do unless somebody thinks i'll fry another amiga not something i want to do. is this other drive IDE or MFM whatever that is.

yeah that's definitely an MFM drive.  Bin it.

[redrumloa]

yeah that's definitely an MFM drive.  Bin it.

Well, I wouldn't bin it if it is good. Sell it to an even older computer user. Put it on eBay, might make some CP/M user happy.

[shaf]

MFM (ST506) HDD's were extrememy unreliable especially the non Seagate products, Microscience and Miniscribe being the worse.
If you're having problems getting the Drive working list the Manufacturer and Model number and I'll give you the specs.

[JimS]

AC's Tech Journal ran an article on a homebrew scsi interface for the 500/1000 called the "Spartan" (Vol 2, #1). The article talks about using SCSI drives, or an Adaptec 5t506 to scsi adapter. I think you can get a pdf of the magazine from bomjack.