apollo 4040 and A3000 scsi adaptor

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It's not the int2 mod for using a 3040/4040/3060/4060 in the A3000. It seems to be pin 19 on the scsi chip and pin 9 on the ROM. http://www.canit.se/~glenn/apollopatch.html

I have a 4060 in my A3000 and it needs the patch. However, it doesn't boot with anything but the built in version 40.12 scsi.device

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Hang on a moment... you can't boot with anything but the built in scsi.device. And you too have an a3000...

That's correct. I have to use SKIPROMUPDATES "scsi.device" when using 3.5 or 3.9. I'm fairly sure it's because the patch cable and Apollo but I've never tried with just the stock 68030. Too much of a hassle.

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Got a plate full of issues myself right now, but I WILL get back to this...

... the reason I'm keen on it is, I used to be an A3000 owner. And I'm pretty sure I did work out how the internal boot disk could by bypassed, but that was about 20 years ago.

The reason I'm pretty sure is, I removed the internal boot disk after a long struggle (it was a dev machine with a Superkickstart) yet could still continue using the machine. It was an epic deal to work out how, I do remember that much,

I've still got the hard disk. The machine was stolen with a lot of other possessions. I must have booted the A3000 somehow.:confused:

I suppose it's possible to boot from say a Cyberstorm with SCSI in the A3000 even with or without an internal hard drive? Apparently the scsi controller on the Apollo 30xx/40xx is "crap" but bootable (according to documentation) even in an A3000.

And without any hard drive on any controller it would still boot from floppy.

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I guess someone with the necessary skills could rewrite the Apollo ROM to work with scsi.device in kickstart 3.1.4 ROM