The Buddha IDE is back for 2018
 

I've already ordered two of them.

Out of interest does anyone know why this is?

I thought UDMA cables were backwards compatible?

I think its to do with connected/not connected and grounding?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA

ordered min & my A4000 can't wait:great I'm assuming we can install a larger size DOM in the Buddha once it's all set up ??

Yes we can.

Had an email Monday that my preorder had been dispatched... so they are out in the wild a bit early :)

:great

@ wmsteele

got same message today too so good news :spin

Good news. They are significantly cheaper than the IDE4 Zorro II which is about 100 Euro.

Make Amiga great again.

The no-UDMA cable is most likely due to them using 40 pin connectors instead of the keyed 39/40 pin connectors required to use a UDMA cable.

We will have our stock imminently at Amiga Kit

wish they worked :/

Probably a stupid question, but why would you use this instead of a compact flash card?

They do with SOME HDDs and SOME DoMs currently, and Jens is working on firmware fix.

Confirmed working:
Seagate, ST34321A, 4.3GB, XY454813, 3.41
Maxtor, 7171AT, D8069HWS, 170MB
WD, D160BB-00GUC0, 160GB,
Seagate, ST3630A - 958004-030, 630MB, CBMSJESB07, 22-22.06-A1
Seagate Barracuda, ST340016A, 40GB, 3HSA5VLW, 3.19
Seagate ST3290A, 260MB,
WD, 64AA, 6448.6MB, WM653 171 2986

(there's a thread on the facebook CommodoreAmiga page about this)

Amiga 2000 and 3000 have no IDE and so can't use CF without a Buddha or similar

The question should be why would you use this instead of the latest SCSI2SD?

Because A2000 doesn't come with SCSI?

because all CF cards as HD's in miggies became bricks..all of them after a year or so and I tried very expensive, cheap, industrial etc etc etc SO ne more CF cards for me.....:evilgrin

why pick one or the other;) I've got a scsi2sd board on my CS-MKIII but I can't boot WB off it so need to use the onboard IDE on my A4k which is blah so that's why I got the Buddha:great

The Buddha isn't faster than the onboard IDE.