A3640 questions

[patrik]

@icbrkr:

The drives will probably get very hot and fail much sooner than they are supposed to if you doublestack them. Reasonably sized drives are cheap - consider replacing them both with just one.


/Patrik

[patrik]

@icbrkr:

The closet thing doesnt scare me, I have one like that too and there is no real problem in keeping the temperatures. The doublestacking scares me as much as when people consider a normal idle harddrive temperature to be 55C - both generally ends up in a rather short life for the harddrives. Even if you havent had any issues, stuff generally lasts much longer if you keep it at sensible temperatures.

Btw, a tip for speed - get yourself a reasonable sized scsi harddrive instead. The A3000 scsi controller uses dma and as such loads the cpu very little plus it also gives higher transferrates than any Zorro2 controller. If you are hellbent on ide - then buy one of those Acard ide-to-scsi bridges and enjoy the benefits of the A3000 scsi controller whilst still using ide.


/Patrik

[patrik]

@icbrkr:

Btw, I forgot to mention that the Acard ide-to-scsi bridge only costs 5 EUR more compared to the Buddha at vesalia.de. Sure, you can only use one harddrive with the Acard bridge, but you should honestly not need more than one harddrive given the price and size of ide harddrives nowadays.


/Patrik

[patrik]

@icbrkr:

It should work even if a cap is removed. Have you tripplechecked that the motherboard jumpers are correctly set for the A3640?

Also - does this snippet from www.amiga-hardware.com hold true for your A3000?

The other thing to consider is the version of Kickstart your A3000 uses. If it contains Kickstart 1.4, the pre-boot Kickstart which loads a Kickstart image from disk you cannot use this accelerator, regardless of what version of Kickstart it eventually boots. If your A3000 uses Kickstart 2.04 then you can use this accelerator providing that you have a Ramsey Chip newer than revision 4 and you aren't using Static Column Fast-RAM. There are no known problems if you use Kickstart 3.1.

/Patrik

[patrik]

@icbrkr:

Aye, I understand that.


/Patrik