FastATA on A600?

[gurthuk]

Will the A600 take a A1200 FastATA card such as http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=24&products_id=192&osCsid=07d2ceb62658baaec949dd3f2994a5f9.

I'm upgrading the kickstarts to 3.1 and hopefully the processor too.

[adonay]

NO!!

the a600 have only got one rom socket unlike the a4k and 1,2k

adonay :-D

[x56h34]

The idea of having an A600 fast ata connector is kind of cool though. :-)

[adonay]

hehe a cool idea but the same goes for a PPC acboard for the 600 but the fast ata (for those in uk =power flyer) is just not verry fun to use on a mashine with a 030 or less, sinse it does not feature DMA.I even think my 060 lacks what it takes to be fully able to handle the fast ata at max power.

adonay :-D

[gurthuk]

point taken - I didn't think of that.

I fancy max'ing out an A600 for some reason, if only to play with Deluxe Paint or Stunt Car Racer.

Could I attach a CD-ROM via the onboard IDE?

[adonay]

Could I attach a CD-ROM via the onboard IDE?

no problem doing that only that you will need a cable with both the 2.5" and 3.5" if you still intend to have a 2.5" hardrive inside the 600

adonay :-D

[leirbag28]

@gurthuk

I fancy max'ing out an A600 for some reason, if only to play with Deluxe Paint or Stunt Car Racer.

Could I attach a CD-ROM via the onboard IDE?

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First.......I want to start by letting you know..... Deluxe Paint was dethroned by Brilliance as the Best 2D paint program for Amiga.......get Brilliance 2.0

Second.........Yes, You can add a CDROM drive........get a SlimlieDVDROM drive for Laptops if you can and then fit it inside the A600.  (Thats what Im doing :-))

I fancy upgrading my A600 too :-)   Already got a 4mb PCMCIA, a Slimline CDROM, MASPLayer MP3 Decoder, 4.5gb HD (Gonna replace with an 80gig)  I used to have an Apollo 630......dying to get one back...........ther will be new ones coming....but the board has to have a different shape so that one can fit it and a CDROM internally and still keep the Floppydrive and HD still inside.

I have a basic design idea in mind that will work beautifully and support all old processors, allow one to fit all I have said including USB ports and the Clockport upgrade for the A600.