17 Oct
2009
17 Oct
'09
5:19 p.m.
Heh, coincidentally, I'm about to bring my Amiga 1060 Sidecar over to
Dave Dunfield; back in the day, I used that as a HD interface; any
hard disk that the PC can see can also be used by the Amiga. For a
plain A1000 I think that is the "simplest" method. My A1060 is
unfortunately not doing too well after all these years. And I still
have to get the data off the MFM drive and its Xebec controller.
There is also a simple schematic for a nonbooting A500-to-IDE
interface around (basically a bunch of buffers on the address and data
bus) that could be adapted easily for the 1000, Google A500ide.
Or find a friendly neighborhood owner of an Amiga 2000+SCSI card,
A3000, or better with a ZIP drive; that has become my favourite way of
transferring data :-)
Joe.
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 19:31, Curt @ Atari Museum <curt at atarimuseum.com> wrote:
Yeah yeah, I know.... ?What does an Atari guy need
with an Amiga HD. ? ?I
have a ton of Lynx developer disks, all in Amiga format that I need to read
and I have an Amiga 1000, so to make things easier I'd like to add a Hard
Drive onto it for doing the OS load up, using the Cloanto tools and transfer
those disks over to my PC.
Now for a guy who 20 years ago used to get involved in the numerous Atari
vs. Amiga battles, I find it interesting that there are more hard disk
interfaces for the ST's then you can count, yet for the life of me, I can't
seem to clearly find any Amiga 1000 hard drive interfaces with the exception
of the Pheonix motherboard replacement. ? Anyone on the list who's an Amiga
fan know exactly where I can find a hard disk solution for the Amiga
(commercial or homebrew) that is still actively and easily available.
Curt
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