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Offline tonyvdbTopic starter

2 CF cards and CD rom?
« on: November 22, 2014, 05:20:35 PM »
So, from what I understand I can now have more than two IDE devices on my A4000? I want to have two different OS installed (one will have 3.1 and the other 3.9) How do I properly implement this. I also still want to have the CD rom drive.
Do I use one of these?
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=42&products_id=599

Is there anything else I need to know to make this work?

By the way thanks everyone for all their help and advice in the last few weeks.
Tony
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Re: 2 CF cards and CD rom?
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2014, 05:37:30 PM »
Yes, that's what you need to expand the single IDE port of the A4000. However, IMO the expanded IDE interface coupled with one of the TrueIDE modules would make it real easy to have two operating systems on the same IDE bus. http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=42&products_id=1203 and some info here about the TrueIDE http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/TrueIDE. You can then use the other 4 device IDE port for your optical drive. Just a suggestion. :)
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Re: 2 CF cards and CD rom?
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2014, 06:11:21 PM »
Oh, ok that looks interesting. does it have two slots for two CF cards?
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Re: 2 CF cards and CD rom?
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2014, 06:25:48 PM »
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Oh, ok that looks interesting. does it have two slots for two CF cards?

Yes, that's the beauty of it! And it can be mounted horizontally or vertically. You can order the 2 CF cards in the options drop down when you order the TrueIDE from AmigaKit too. Switching between two operating systems is real easy...

"If TrueIDE is equipped with two CF-cards, master and slave can be  swapped by pressing and holding the reset button for more than three  seconds. This way you can build a hardware-multiboot system without  having to install a boot manager. The second system may for example be a  rescue-system that allows remote maintenance. To undo the card swap,  just press and hold reset again for more than three seconds, or  power-cycle the system"

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Re: 2 CF cards and CD rom?
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2014, 06:29:26 PM »
Very cool. Im always amazed how much new stuff is being made even now for the Amiga!

Thanks for that info.
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Re: 2 CF cards and CD rom?
« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2014, 06:30:09 PM »
Why make things more complicated than it is? Make two or more bootable partitions on your drive and select between the different OSes in the early bootmenu. No extra hardware needed for having multiple OSes.
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Re: 2 CF cards and CD rom?
« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2014, 06:31:30 PM »
Quote from: tonyvdb;778013
So, from what I understand I can now have more than two IDE devices on my A4000? I want to have two different OS installed (one will have 3.1 and the other 3.9) How do I properly implement this. I also still want to have the CD rom drive.
Do I use one of these?
Is there anything else I need to know to make this work?

By the way thanks everyone for all their help and advice in the last few weeks.
Tony

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Hi Tony I have one of these and I have more
os installed on my Compact Flash cards than you could wave a stick at ,and wonderfully convenient to quickly change over to another Amiga os ,one of the best items I have ever bought and now my Amiga is beginning to make the redundant pc look puny ,best wishes Brian.:laughing::laughing:
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Offline tonyvdbTopic starter

Re: 2 CF cards and CD rom?
« Reply #7 on: November 22, 2014, 06:39:50 PM »
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Why make things more complicated than it is? Make two or more bootable partitions on your drive and select between the different OSes in the early bootmenu. No extra hardware needed for having multiple OSes.


I understand, but I like the option of being able to have a backup CF card handy and this makes the process of making that copy very easy.
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Re: 2 CF cards and CD rom?
« Reply #8 on: November 22, 2014, 07:09:36 PM »
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I understand, but I like the option of being able to have a backup CF card handy and this makes the process of making that copy very easy.

Plus, If you install two 8GB CF cards, you could partition into two 4GB partitions on both 8GB CF cards and use backup.lha from AmiNet to create automatic incremental backups from both CF cards to the other (like mirroring both CF cards) while still having two operating systems since both CF cards are always "online". :) Kinda cool....
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