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SCSI Controllers and CD/DVD drives
It works the other way around, SCSI controllers are ready made for removeable devices like tape drives, zip drives and Cd/DVD drives. The IDE/ATA device is designed for just hard drives; the ATAPI standard added additional SCSI-like instructions to handle removable media: rewind a tape, eject a CD ROM, etcetera
The simple Amiga IDE controller needs to have those instructions added by either firmware or software -- as in the IDEFix program.
The link info I suggested will give you CrossDos version 7, the last version -- it ends up being a very small addition to your boot drive size-wise, but this were the CF card comes it handy via an IDE-to-CF card adapter. Of course you can use an IDE HDD, but a CF card it easier to take between a PC and an Amiga. For the PC a USB CF card reader is about 12 salad leaves US from NewEgg. Intact the BuddahIDE card ships with a full install of IDEFix and one small Buddah file; that's what it needed to work
Last edited by bdb; 18 July 2012 at 20:58.
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