drives can be fitted into an A500 in place of the built-in floppy drive using the Shuffle Board
autobooting (adide.device or icdide.device) - requires at least Kickstart 1.3
autobooting is problematic with the CDTV - either a boot floppy has to be used (which a bare CDTV lacks), or after a reset by selecting the hard disk in the Early Startup Menu (which require at least Kickstart 2.0)
incompatible with Western Digital and IBM hard disks
AdIDE 44 rules out accelerators that connect to the 68000's socket due to mechanical constraints
AdIDE 40 is compatible with processor expansions if the AdIDE is fitted below the accelerator - reported to be functional in A500 are CSA Derringer and Mega-Midget Racer, as well as Microbotics VXL*30
older software revisions work only with 68000 processor cards