Buddha "phoenix edition" IDE Controller, Zorro-II Card

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Buddha "phoenix edition"

IDE Controller for Amigas with Zorro-II/III Slots

The successor of the Buddha Flash controller, originally designed to be used with the Phoenix board (hence the name), has a number of different features compared to the previous version:



The primary IDE connector has 44 pins (to be used with 2.5" IDE hard disks), the card now also features a power connector to feed 2.5" devices. The look has also changed, the "phoenix edition" is green instead of black.

Please note that the Buddha "phoenix edition" can't be used with the Phoenix board without modifications! The version sold is intended to be used with Amiga models that feature a Zorro-II/III slot!

The old features present in the Buddha Flash version are certainly still available:

The controller has got a 64KByte Flash ROM, so you can install new firmware (that means a new ROM) without having to unscrew your computer. With previous versions, replacement of the ROM chip was necessary.

Another feature is the clock-port on the card: You can install hardware on this port that has been designed to be used on the Amiga 1200. The hardware designed for the A1200 clock-port is very cheap, and now you can use the low-cost hardware in zorro systems.

Other features include:

[*]autoboot from Kickstart V1.3
[*]two IDE-Ports for up to four IDE-devices
[*]compatible with nearly every IDE/Atapi devices: harddisks, Atapi CD-Roms (any speed), Atapi CD-changer, Syquest removable media, LS120 (120 MB floppy, so-called "A-drive"), IDE ZIP drives, Atapi CD-Writer (with MakeCD)
[*]autoboot from IDE-ZIP or LS120
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The IDE timing of the Buddha controller is software-configurable: This way, you can even operate very old IDE devices on the Buddha (mode 0 devices). This feature is unique on the Amiga market!

High speed: Even with slow harddisks like the Quantum Bigfoot, transfer rates of more than 2.2 MBytes per second can be reached. The raw data transfer rate is only limited by the zorro bus: 3.58 MBytes per second.

There's also a local expansion port for the "HyperCom 3 plus", which gives you two high-speed serial interfaces, and one parallel port.

The drivers were written by Elaborate Bytes. You get the whole IDE-package from Elaborate Bytes: Cache CD Filesystem, Harddisk autopark, CD-Changer drivers and the CD-32 emulator (AGA chipset only). Harddisks are formatted using the HDToolbox of your workbench.

Harddisks larger than 4 GBytes have been a problem for the Amiga for a very long time. The Buddha also solves this problem: It supports the "TD64" commands, so large harddisks are no problem any longer.

For your convenience when changing over to the Buddha controller without loss of data, the Buddha can use Amiga-formatted drives right after connection without having to re-format the harddisk. Other controllers can only mount harddisks that have been formatted by an A1200 or an A4000, but the Buddha even mounts GVP or AT-Apollo formatted harddisks after running a conversion program. You don't have to backup the harddisk for that - the drive is being converted without loss of data!

The Buddha Flash controller comes with an IDE cable, the driver disk and a setup guide.

EUR 49.90

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[jj]

I am guessing this would be as CPU intensvie as powerflyer but what about speed , slower ?

[tonyyeb]

Is this a new revision or just a plug for the version that has been out for a while?

[boglo]

Now that the rest of the pc world is going to SATA, we get ide for our amigas?
Why waste time and money, make a card for the newest tech.
This reminds me of the dead Voodoo cards.
Come on guys get into the 21st century!!!

[Ruud]

It's another one of Vesalia's cryptic adverts.  What they meant to say is they've got this item in stock at their online store.

[tonyyeb]

Now that the rest of the pc world is going to SATA, we get ide for our amigas?
Why waste time and money, make a card for the newest tech.
This reminds me of the dead Voodoo cards.
Come on guys get into the 21st century!!!

Sorry to be pedantic but you mean the PC world is goint to SATA, we get PATA for our Amiga's. Both are IDE.

[jj]

Sorry to be pedantic but you mean the PC world is goint to SATA, we get PATA for our Amiga's. Both are IDE.

 
Dont thiink that is pedantic. I feel a lot of people do not really understand the difference between SATA and PATA
 
Its strange how they never went with SATA originally due to speed issues

[kolla]

Now that the rest of the pc world is going to SATA, we get ide for our amigas?
Why waste time and money, make a card for the newest tech.
This reminds me of the dead Voodoo cards.
Come on guys get into the 21st century!!!

I kind of agree, allthough you can get cheap SATA/PATA converters all over the place.

[amyren]

Now that the rest of the pc world is going to SATA, we get ide for our amigas?
Why waste time and money, make a card for the newest tech.
This reminds me of the dead Voodoo cards.
Come on guys get into the 21st century!!!

And what are the main benefits for SATA vs PATA, when connected on the Zorro bus?

I think that if you really mean that last sentence about getting into the 21st century, then you should be getting an Amiga more suitable. And as we speak, the Sam is the only choice for new hardware - which, by the way does use SATA

But if you are really keen on getting modern hardware inserted to an old Amiga, you could use this card with a solid state disk, or one of those IDE flash modules. These disks are faster anyway due to the reduced seek time. These disks are cheap as well in the 4GB and 8GB versions, which should be sufficant for most older amigas.

[Daedalus]

And what are the main benefits for SATA vs PATA, when connected on the Zorro bus?

There are no benefits in relation to the Zorro bus itself - a modern disc in either SATA or PATA will support faster transfers than Zorro-II can handle anyway. The main advantage is that it's getting harder to find PATA hard drives nowadays, and they're often more expensive than their SATA counterparts. So the advantage would be the ability to use cheaper, more common drives.

[Darrin]

Now that the rest of the pc world is going to SATA, we get ide for our amigas?
Why waste time and money, make a card for the newest tech.
This reminds me of the dead Voodoo cards.
Come on guys get into the 21st century!!!

It is not a waste of money.  I've had a Buddha for years and it is an extremely handy piece of kit for connecting cheap hard drives, CD/DVD drives, Zip Drives, etc to your big box Amiga.

What on Earth is the point of connecting a SATA drive to a stock A2000 with a 7MHz CPU and 1MB of RAM?  IDE will do very nicely thank you and 50 Euros is a bargain for this small market.

[tonyyeb]

IDE will do very nicely thank you and 50 Euros is a bargain for this small market.

Come on Darrin, have you not read the posts in this thread? PATA man! PATA!

[Darrin]

Come on Darrin, have you not read the posts in this thread? PATA man! PATA!

LOL.  Sorry.  

[Crumb]

Buddha card is a nice card. I have some friends with the flash model and the catweasel+buddah and both work flawlessly.