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[Alex Evans]

On  23  Jan 2007, at 7:32 PM, Dan Olson wrote:


>> I don't know if it's the same one, but a friend of mine has a similar

>> IDE controller in his Amiga 1000.  (Hi Lex) But I don't know if he  

>> has

>> a hard drive running on it or not.

>

> Correct me if I'm way off here, but I was looking at this a little,  

> and I

> think this lacked the ROM and/or hardware needed for the Amiga to  

> see this

> as a valid hard drive controller, so you'd have to boot from floppy  

> and

> run a special program to make this work. (I hope I'm wrong, an IDE

> controller on the 1000 would be kinda cool).


Well, you still have to startup with your kickstart 1.3 disk (unless  
you have modified your A1000 to have a kick ROM), but that isn't  
really that big a problem.  My A1000 actually has 2 IDE controllers:  
this one and a dataflyer 1000 (which also has 8 Meg fast RAM on it).