A1000 & AdIDE

[bl_bl]

Heya!

This is my 1st post here so please bare with me! :-)

I have hooked up my old Amiga 1000 (yeah!). After a few glitches here and there everything seems to be in good working order now.

I have a Golem 2MB box and a MacroSystem Omti-board and controller + a big 5.25" harddisk. I also have a AdIDE interface which I used on my Amiga 500 back in the days which I would like to install in the Amiga 1000 instead so I can get rid of my current harddisk interface/disk etc. Therefore I have a few questions which I hope someone can answer.

1. How can I determine if it is AdIDE or AdIDE2? What are the differences?

2. If I recall correctly (from some 15 years back), the AdIDE interface when hooked up in my Amiga 500 and with a harddrive of approx. 40MB & Kickstart 1.3 used up a lot of chipmem (too much really). If that is true, is it possible to upgrade the ROM of the board (I have a label on top of one component of my AdIDE board which reads '9a2a') or configure that harddrive differently or something to save as much chipmem as possible? The MacroSystem is quite good when it comes to the use of the chipmem.

3. Can the harddisk and the ROM be disabled using the mouse button(s) during reset or something?

4. Are there limitations to the ROM so you cannot use too big disks or can that be "work-around" these days?

5. I was thinking of connecting a 2.5" harddisk, I should be able use a standard PC 3.5" to 2.5" harddisk adapter to convert the data signals I guess, right?


TIA!

[da9000]

Welcome!

Have you consulted:

amiga.resource.cx and amiga-hardware.com ?

I don't have this hardware so I don't know but those sites should have at least some of the asked for info!

Good luck!

[rkauer]

bl_bl wrote:
Heya!

This is my 1st post here so please bare with me! :-)

I have hooked up my old Amiga 1000 (yeah!). After a few glitches here and there everything seems to be in good working order now.

 Congratulations! Hope you have a good time with your "new" Amiga!

I have a Golem 2MB box and a MacroSystem Omti-board and controller + a big 5.25" harddisk. I also have a AdIDE interface which I used on my Amiga 500 back in the days which I would like to install in the Amiga 1000 instead so I can get rid of my current harddisk interface/disk etc. Therefore I have a few questions which I hope someone can answer.

1. How can I determine if it is AdIDE or AdIDE2? What are the differences?

 If you have Sysinfo, use it and check the list of DEVICES that are running after boot. :roll:

2. If I recall correctly (from some 15 years back), the AdIDE interface when hooked up in my Amiga 500 and with a harddrive of approx. 40MB & Kickstart 1.3 used up a lot of chipmem (too much really). If that is true, is it possible to upgrade the ROM of the board (I have a label on top of one component of my AdIDE board which reads '9a2a') or configure that harddrive differently or something to save as much chipmem as possible? The MacroSystem is quite good when it comes to the use of the chipmem.

 Nope. You need some FAST mem to avoid this problem. A circumvented way to avoid this problem is lowing the numbers of buffers on the partitions of the HD.

3. Can the harddisk and the ROM be disabled using the mouse button(s) during reset or something?

 Only using a kickstart ROM 37175 or newer.

4. Are there limitations to the ROM so you cannot use too big disks or can that be "work-around" these days?

 Probably yes. Those elder controllers use to permit only 1024Mb (1Gb), tops! Check compatibility installing a new HD and running the install program.

5. I was thinking of connecting a 2.5" harddisk, I should be able use a standard PC 3.5" to 2.5" harddisk adapter to convert the data signals I guess, right?

 It only works if you have an IDE controller. Or an ACARD adapter (a SCSI to IDE bridge card, findable at ~35USD in USA).