TF330 and SX-1 a match made in heaven?

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TF330 and SX-1 a match made in heaven?

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I am the proud owner of a TF330 and looking through the loft yesterday I came across my old SX-1. After removing the TF330 from my CD32, inserting and removing the SX-1 several times it booted the 90’s hard drive into Amiga OS.

So I was wondering if the two were plugged into the CD32 would they play nice together? The one thing I guess I would be worried about is the power draw. But I would replace the Harddisk with a CF card or remove it completely and rely on the TF330 IDE connector instead. I guess it would be quicker than the SX-1.

The other benefit would be the extra ports it provides such as floppy, parallel RGB ports. Also it has a battery backed clock. And lastly the mighty 8mb of Ram (which I know is completely pointless when the TF330 comes with 64mb).

Will it work? Will it blow the system to kingdom come? Or will it work in perfect harmony (subject to a few tweaks)?
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No reason why it wont work. The IDE on the TF330 will override any other IDE devices in the machine. The ZII ram should also work fine.
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Did you have any success with the combo?
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I have both, and it looks like the riser that comes with SX-1 is not working with TF-330 in any of the two positions.
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apolkosnik wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2019 11:30 pm I have both, and it looks like the riser that comes with SX-1 is not working with TF-330 in any of the two positions.
Maybe same reason analogic doesnt work. PUNT does not float when unasserted.
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terriblefire wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2019 11:48 pm
apolkosnik wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2019 11:30 pm I have both, and it looks like the riser that comes with SX-1 is not working with TF-330 in any of the two positions.
Maybe same reason analogic doesnt work. PUNT does not float when unasserted.
Yep, mine didn’t work either when I tried them together.
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Same here with an SX-32 backplane, SX-32 Mk2 wont work with a TF330 compliant backplane either.
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heitzek wrote: Tue May 19, 2020 6:26 pm Same here with an SX-32 backplane, SX-32 Mk2 wont work with a TF330 compliant backplane either.
The SX32 riser isn’t a pure riser. The riser is smart. This will never work
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