09 November 2008, 08:03 | #1 |
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Best way to connect CD Rom to A4000???
What's the best wat to connect the CDROM drive to an A4000D??
I use an IDE hard drive for the system. I have a Tandem Zorro IDE card, A X-Surf with IDE, and the onboard IDE. At the moment it's connected to the Tandem. Am I better off ditching the Tandem and setting it as slave to the onboard IDE?? Or even hooking it up to the X-Surf??? I even have a spare 2091 I can connect but I dont think I have a SCSI drive short enough to fit inside the 4000. Anyone have any recommendations??? jabsy |
09 November 2008, 08:58 | #2 |
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Not too sure X-Surf IDE can do ATAPI drives.
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09 November 2008, 10:37 | #3 |
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It can. The only limitation in comparison to a normal IDE connector is no autoboot, as it doesn't have a rom onboard.
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09 November 2008, 12:25 | #4 |
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And I guess even that can be overcome if you have a Kickflash, eFlash, Algor Pro, Deneb or some other form of flash boot device?
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2 months ago I've ditched my old 2x SCSI cd-rom drive to a ASUS 32x CD-RW drive that i had without being used.
I plugged it to the onboard A4000D IDE connector. It works like a charm. It even does 8X recording CD-R with MakeCD, on the 040/25 without losing a byte. You have of course to use IDEFix97 for WB3.0/3.1. It's the only drive attached to the IDE slot, I'm using a SCSI II hard drive. Hope that helps somehow. Cheers |
09 November 2008, 15:51 | #6 |
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8x is what? 8 * 150KByte/s = 1.2MByte/s
Not bad. Especially as some of the Amiga's bandwidth is being used to read the SCSI disk too! |
09 November 2008, 17:01 | #7 |
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Just a word of warning: the IDE ports on the Bhudda/X-surf and other E3B/I-C products aren't able to use a DVD/CD-RW unit to burn discs.
They are capable of reading discs, of course. |
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11 November 2008, 01:08 | #10 |
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Thanks for the info chaps. Looks like I'll turf the tandem into one of the other boxes and use the x-surf or the onboard.
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