On 11/03/2014 12:10 AM, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote: > Most Amigas either use or can use IDE/PATA. For those you can connect a > decent CF card with only mechanical interface. My Amigas run on those > for a long time already. I think this is an overstatement. Basically only the last series of Amigas came with an IDE controller (the Gayle chip) and those were the 600, the 1200 and the 4000. All other Amigas either shipped with on-board SCSI (like the 3000) or didn't have an on-board controller at all (1000, 500, 500+, 2000) and if they had a controller, it was SCSI in most cases. Also, most SCSI controllers are much faster on the Amiga in my experience which is why we (the Debian/m68k porters) are preferring to use these over the internal IDE controller of the 4000, for example. The only problem we have at the moment is that the vanilla kernel has lost support for the SCSI controller of the Blizzard accelerator boards which means many Amigas currently can't boot Linux. Luckily, some Linux/m68k developers have resurrected the driver and it now works but is yet to be merged upstream. Thus, the only current solution for most Amigas to use a modern, quiet and fast hard disk or flash device is to buy one of these SCSI-IDE bridges which are quite expensive. I was lucky to buy one off eBay which was attached to a Yamaha CRW-F1 drive and paid just around 35 Euros for the drive including the bridge. Normally those bridges cost more than 100 Euros. However, if anyone knows a cheaper method to replace old SCSI drives on my Amigas and 68k-Macs, I would be very happy to hear. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2014-11-03 10:00:03
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