[Coco] [Color Computer] Older site.

Bob Devries devries.bob at gmail.com
Wed Jan 24 01:46:31 EST 2007


Dan, the AdIDE plugs into the 68000 processor socket.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Olson" <dano at agora.rdrop.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Older site.


> Cool, I'll have to look for one!  Does it go in the 68000 socket or is it
> specific to the 1000 or 500?  Thanks.
>
>  Dan
>
>
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Bob Devries wrote:
>
>> The AdIDE does have an autoboot ROM, so it will actually boot from the 
>> IDE
>> drive.
>>
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>> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>>
>> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
>> the capacity to be his spokesman,
>> so that I know how to help the weary.
>>
>> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
>> my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Dan Olson" <dano at agora.rdrop.com>
>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 3:32 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Older site.
>>
>>
>>>> I don't know if it's the same one, but a friend of mine has a similar
>>>> IDE controller in his Amiga 1000.  (Hi Lex) But I don't know if he has
>>>> a hard drive running on it or not.
>>>
>>> Correct me if I'm way off here, but I was looking at this a little, and 
>>> I
>>> think this lacked the ROM and/or hardware needed for the Amiga to see 
>>> this
>>> as a valid hard drive controller, so you'd have to boot from floppy and
>>> run a special program to make this work. (I hope I'm wrong, an IDE
>>> controller on the 1000 would be kinda cool).
>>>
>>>  Dan
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