A500 4/8mb with IDE board completed - Page 10

mfilos · 22 June 2014, 22:59

Lol!

23 June 2014, 11:17

It wasn't me

Doctor Clu · 23 June 2014, 18:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by kipper2k

Have to share this, it made me laugh, someone sent me an email and here is an excerpt

"I send you the money.If you need any information please let me know.
Have a nice weak end. "

Person must have been in a hurry. (Wasn't me either).

I'm sure Kipper2K that you get some interesting responses, maybe even some in different languages too.

tomead · 23 June 2014, 20:54

If you are caught up kipper. Can you put me down for a 8mb version for my A2000. PM me when you want payment.

kipper2k · 23 June 2014, 22:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by tomead

If you are caught up kipper. Can you put me down for a 8mb version for my A2000. PM me when you want payment.

Hi, Probably wed/thur

abraXXious · 26 June 2014, 03:30

Hey there!

Any chance of purchasing an 8mb/IDE board with socketer adapter for the A1000?

kipper2k · 26 June 2014, 04:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by abraXXious

Hey there!

Any chance of purchasing an 8mb/IDE board with socketer adapter for the A1000?

yup,

Off to Winnipeg for long weekend so back on Tuesday

Doctor Clu · 28 June 2014, 06:12

Well my 8 mb compact flash board for the Amiga 500 arrived. Installed it, got it to power on, and it is showing extra ram. Yah!!

Are there any tutorials on how to format the compact flash to a useable drive? Also it seems when this does come up this is showing up as drive zero which negates the built in floppy.

Jope · 28 June 2014, 08:32

I don't believe it would go in place of DF0. Even if you made a partition with the device name DF0, scsi.device would rename it to DF0.0 before adding it to the device list.

Use hdtoolbox from your 3.1 install disk to partition the drive. There are many tutorials about this on this subforum as well, just use the search function on the top of the page.

Doctor Clu · 28 June 2014, 14:27

Alright, looks like the HDToolBox sees... SCSI 0 0 Unknown.

Probably need to change that to IDE. Looking for a tutorial at this point...

demolition · 28 June 2014, 17:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by Doctor Clu

Alright, looks like the HDToolBox sees... SCSI 0 0 Unknown.

Probably need to change that to IDE. Looking for a tutorial at this point...

It sounds right, so you need to let HDToolBox read the parameters of the drive. After that is done, you can start partitioning it.
It will never show IDE as IDE is handled by scsi.device.

Doctor Clu · 28 June 2014, 22:13

Thanks for the confirmation Demolition on what it would take to partition the internal drive. I have a 2 gb Toshiba flash card with Workbench 3.1 working now.

Kipper2k.... nice product, thanks for making this! I never imagined I would be able to find a internal hard drive and memory upgrade for the Amiga 5000 in 2014 for such a reasonable price.

abraXXious · 29 June 2014, 13:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by kipper2k

yup,

Off to Winnipeg for long weekend so back on Tuesday

Winnipeg? Isn't that where they faked the moon landings?

Any chance of returning my email before you go? Thanks.

kipper2k · 29 June 2014, 16:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by abraXXious

Winnipeg? Isn't that where they faked the moon landings?

Any chance of returning my email before you go? Thanks.

Hi,

I did reply to you from my shaw account, Once i get back i will get you sorted. They made it to the moon, i went to a BBQ there once

, i think it may have been the shrooms

29 June 2014, 17:23

You got mail kipper

ajack · 02 July 2014, 18:25

@Kipper2k:

Just to let you know my 8MB board arrived today (2-Jul-2014) was stamped 18-Jun-2014, which means it took two weeks to arrive... The Zorro connector works perfectly.

I'd like to report that without the A508, SYSinfo reports my 68010 processor machine is x1.07 faster than an A600 but with the A508, my machine is x1.42 faster though it still reports the processor running at 7.09MHz. Anybody else see this?

Photon · 02 July 2014, 19:31

It's normal to see a 33% speed increase from adding any real fastram expansion to an unexpanded A1000, A500, A500+, A600, or A2000. That's what makes fastram fastram.

ajack · 04 July 2014, 04:25

I have 9MB RAM in my A500, 8MB Fast RAM, 512K Chip RAM and 512K Slow RAM and some demos in WHDLoad refuses to run insisting I need 1MB Chip RAM when I can run them off floppies without any problems. <facepalm>

dirkies · 04 July 2014, 06:15

Sent pm to kipper2k to get my hands on this gem

demolition · 04 July 2014, 10:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by ajack

I have 9MB RAM in my A500, 8MB Fast RAM, 512K Chip RAM and 512K Slow RAM and some demos in WHDLoad refuses to run insisting I need 1MB Chip RAM when I can run them off floppies without any problems. <facepalm>

Yes, WHDLoad slaves usually need more chip mem than the original game. You can rewire your slow mem to become chip mem so you'll have 1MB chip.

02 July 2014, 18:25	#196
ajack Registered User Join Date: May 2014 Location: Malaysia Posts: 115	@Kipper2k: Just to let you know my 8MB board arrived today (2-Jul-2014) was stamped 18-Jun-2014, which means it took two weeks to arrive... The Zorro connector works perfectly. I'd like to report that without the A508, SYSinfo reports my 68010 processor machine is x1.07 faster than an A600 but with the A508, my machine is x1.42 faster though it still reports the processor running at 7.09MHz. Anybody else see this? Last edited by ajack; 02 July 2014 at 18:26. Reason: Added additional info...

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mfilos Paranoid Amigoid Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Athens/Greece Age: 45 Posts: 1,978	Lol!

23 June 2014, 20:54	#184
tomead tomead Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Chichester Age: 45 Posts: 71	If you are caught up kipper. Can you put me down for a 8mb version for my A2000. PM me when you want payment.

26 June 2014, 03:30	#186
abraXXious Registered User Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Mount Isa / Australia Posts: 48	Hey there! Any chance of purchasing an 8mb/IDE board with socketer adapter for the A1000?

28 June 2014, 06:12	#188
Doctor Clu Registered User Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Dallas, TX- USA Posts: 48	Well my 8 mb compact flash board for the Amiga 500 arrived. Installed it, got it to power on, and it is showing extra ram. Yah!! Are there any tutorials on how to format the compact flash to a useable drive? Also it seems when this does come up this is showing up as drive zero which negates the built in floppy.

28 June 2014, 08:32	#189
Jope - Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Helsinki / Finland Age: 43 Posts: 9,861	I don't believe it would go in place of DF0. Even if you made a partition with the device name DF0, scsi.device would rename it to DF0.0 before adding it to the device list. Use hdtoolbox from your 3.1 install disk to partition the drive. There are many tutorials about this on this subforum as well, just use the search function on the top of the page.

28 June 2014, 14:27	#190
Doctor Clu Registered User Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Dallas, TX- USA Posts: 48	Alright, looks like the HDToolBox sees... SCSI 0 0 Unknown. Probably need to change that to IDE. Looking for a tutorial at this point...

28 June 2014, 22:13	#192
Doctor Clu Registered User Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Dallas, TX- USA Posts: 48	Thanks for the confirmation Demolition on what it would take to partition the internal drive. I have a 2 gb Toshiba flash card with Workbench 3.1 working now. Kipper2k.... nice product, thanks for making this! I never imagined I would be able to find a internal hard drive and memory upgrade for the Amiga 5000 in 2014 for such a reasonable price.

29 June 2014, 17:23	#195
Ali7 Posts: n/a	You got mail kipper

02 July 2014, 19:31	#197
Photon Moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Eksjö / Sweden Posts: 5,602	It's normal to see a 33% speed increase from adding any real fastram expansion to an unexpanded A1000, A500, A500+, A600, or A2000. That's what makes fastram fastram.

04 July 2014, 04:25	#198
ajack Registered User Join Date: May 2014 Location: Malaysia Posts: 115	I have 9MB RAM in my A500, 8MB Fast RAM, 512K Chip RAM and 512K Slow RAM and some demos in WHDLoad refuses to run insisting I need 1MB Chip RAM when I can run them off floppies without any problems. <facepalm>

04 July 2014, 06:15	#199
dirkies Zone Friend Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Belgium Age: 51 Posts: 1,296	Sent pm to kipper2k to get my hands on this gem

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