Classic Amigas - Still Useful?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Yes!  I use my A500 almost daily, mostly for hardware hacking and seeing what other tweaks I can do on it to squeeze an extra ounce of performance out of it.  I love the customizable and open nature of the system.  Also there's just something that feels "right" about doing Amiga stuff on an actual Amiga.  Always hated emulators, even when I didn't have an Amiga for years I refused to run one, and just kept all my software in storage until I picked up another one.  Bit of a purist, I suppose.  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Go figure... the Quantum ProDrive LPS 240 in this A3K is apparently going flakey and it will not boot anymore.  HDToolBox will recognize it but it cannot properly read the driver geometry nor can it save the geometry information (Error 4 on write!) is what I get.  to top that off, it appears to have a random lockup here and there when booted to the 3.1 install  floppy and I don't know if it's related to the HD issue or not.

I have some U320 SCSI drives and am waiting for an active terminatior (already have the 80 pin to 68  & 50 adapters) but then I found a thread that IBM drives are a crapshoot and low and behold these are IBM drives that I have sitting around.

The deck seems to be stacked against me... I'm seriously considering parting with this thing.  I'll wait until I try the active terminator to see if perhaps it's all related to an outgoing drive but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Have you checked the battery??