Amiga 2000 to Vampire or not to Vampire with A3000 Toaster

[Crom00]

Hey I have a Vampire 2000 (V500 and the Kipper cpu slot adapter) I also have a Toaster 4k and the Amiga 2000. If you can get my a disk image of that A3000 drive I can install it onto the Vampire and boot it off the Vampire ide bus and report back how it all works.

I also have the PAR (Personal Animation Recorder card and DCTV) in addition to a Tricaster TCXD300 HD unit. So I have similar gear to what you have.

I can can confirm anyting that uses the FPU wont work and you will want a 2mb agnus and the 2mb chip ram on that A2000.

The Vampire trounces the 060 and you get faster IDE and HDMI in addition to some other amenities. The massive speed increase speeds up even ECS graphics.
I've run IDE to CF Card and IDE to SD cards up to 32 gb without issues. The A2000 is now a prominent machine the sheer amount of slots and space to work with is great.
Vampire worked with every card I tested. ASDG8meg ram card, A2091 scsi, Live a2000, ASDG serial card, Commodore flicker fixer, ADSCSI 2008, DCTV, and PAR.
Scsi is no longer worth the trouble when you've got a Vampire.

[Crom00]

dunno what to say... they all showed up in early startup control with the Vampire Gold2 core. Why you would want to use the slow 16 bit memory is baffling.

I read one demo saying the vampire couldn't work with boards that had memory on them since it wasn't able to autoconfig the zorro II slots. Sounds like that isn't entirely true. I've now got to decide whether to place it in my A2000 or with my A500 in a Bodega Bay case.