Buddha Flash

Buddha is an IDE controller for the Zorro slot of Amiga computers.

• Autoboot with Kickstart 1.3, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2
• two IDE-Ports for up to four IDE-devices, additional clockport
• compatible with nearly every IDE/Atapi devices:
  • harddisks
  • DOM (Disk-On-Module) modules (40-pin)
  • Industrial-CF cards
  • CD/DVD drives

• Installer for automatic partitioning and installation of OS versions 1.3, 2.1, and 3.1
• Automatically installs support for CD/DVD drives
• OS 3.2 can later be installed over the OS 3.1 installation (also from CD)
• Installation of OS 3.1 and OS 3.2 both work with either OS 3.1 or 3.2 ROMs installed.

Transfer rates of more than 2.2 MBytes per second can be reached. The raw data transfer rate is only limited by the zorro bus: 3.58 MBytes per second. The latest 20-year anniversary edition can even reach higher speeds using the Fast-Z2 mode of the Z4 board.

Harddisks larger than 4GiB have been a problem for the Amiga for a very long time. The Buddha supports both the TD64 and NSD64 standards to overcome this limitation. The included automatic installer can partition, format and install drives of any size, and it comes with the PFS3 filesystem to format partitions bigger than 4GiB.