bought a new CDTV, questions occour :)

[kidkoala]

hello, I've just bought a cdtv and i'm wondering about the possibilities and the limits of this nice piece of hardware.

first question, short story:

how do i get ide-drives connected on the cdtv?


long story:

i want to connect a cf/mmc-card and i'm wondering is it possible to connect these things, perhaps via a ide-adapter throught a clockport adapter? (the clockport adapter would have to be mounted first).
or is there some other solution for connecting a idedrive/memorycard? i know about the scsi-cards but i guess these only work with scsi equipment and not with memorycards etc.


second question, short story:

is the 1541 diskdrive for the c64 going to work with an amiga? eg. the cdtv..

longer story:


the thing here is that i have a memorycard-reader that emulates the 1541 disk drive (dtv stuff) and if the 1541 is working with the cdtv i could use this memorycard reader with the cdtv a an external harddrive. if that works, what about booting from it?

[rkauer]

If you have a PCMCIA type 1 card reader, why not try it?

[Matt_H]

@ kidkoala

how do i get ide-drives connected on the cdtv?

With great difficulty. Either find a CPU-socket-based IDE interface (AdIDE?), or get a CDTV SCSI card and an IDE->SCSI adapter (insanely expensive). A Clockport USB solution isn't an option (for now, at least) due to there not being an msd-capable USB stack for the Subway that runs on a plain 68000 and 1.3.

is the 1541 diskdrive for the c64 going to work with an amiga? eg. the cdtv..

You can connect one to the Parallel port with the appropriate adapter. I think Aminet has plans for a few options. The CDTV is probably too underpowered to emulate a C64, though.