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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: LordSpunky on June 12, 2011, 09:23:08 AM
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As many know I have an Amiga 4000 that was bought with Cyberstorm2 040, Picasso IV, CD, WK/KS 3.0 etc
I've now ordered my 4GB CF-IDE HDD, I want to install WK3.1, 3.1 ROMs are pending.
Now I'm a bit worried about drivers and stuff, as I don't have any. When I did About I got this About (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=7688675&id=657097062)then I worry there is more installed than I thought. Are most drivers on Aminet?
Also I've got some spanking nice twisted Ultra IDE PC cable that I have spare, will this work to tidy up the case?
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If you are asking if you need drivers for the CF adaptor, then no.
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I'm worried about everything working with a fresh install. Like the Picasso, and my CD rom drive. Will be a new 3.1 install and I'll bin my 3.5" HDD with 3.0.......
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You will need at least drivers for the PicassoIV, easiest is to install the Picasso96 package which can be downloaded here:
http://aminet.net/driver/video/Picasso96.lha
For your CDROM you can download IDE-fix or an alternative driver.
Maybe an idea to archive the data on your old drive into a directory on your flash card, you can then always check certain files (licenses, settings, ...) at a lter point in time if you find out you missed it...
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If I can make one suggestion is that you consider one of the pre-made workbench packs like ClassicWb p96 or Amigasys. I am in the process of getting a 3.1 system on an A4000 with a CV64 and it is quite time consuming. These packs save you a lot of time trying to get a lot of essential utilities working. You can set them up on your compact flash in Winuae, remove the uae monitor driver in devs/monitors and install the picasso 4 monitor driver using p96 all within winuae, and then just put the compact flash card in your A4000.
BTW I was sold a fake Sandisk 4gb compact flash on eBaythat gave me a lot of problems on the A4000. All good now after i bought a genuine Sandisk from a bricks and mortar store, but its something to be aware of.
If you can afford it I would also recommend AmigaOS 3.9: it comes with a nice icon pack, cd driver and filesystem, tcp stack, nice dock bar thats drag and drop, and a lot of little enhancements and tools that you appreciate when they're not there. You can do a lot of this yourself, but it is a lot of work and not as elegant in the end.