A3000, what do I need to know?

[x56h34]

I may be getting an A3000D unit w/ 3.1 roms soon and I was wondering what upgrades would I require? IIUC, it would be nice to have a setup with Buster 11, Ramsey 7, DMAC 4, and WD SCSI rev 8.

I would like to use the on-board SCSI-2 controller for the hard drive, until I get a better accelerator for it, and for SCSI-2 devices even after I get an accelerator which may or may not have a better SCSI controller on it, however is the WD SCSI rev 8, or possibly more updates (Buster 11, Ramsey 7, DMAC 4) absolutely necessary to eliminate the known SCSI and other issues with A3000? INT2 mod would be required for accelerators with SCSI on them, right? I would definitely want Buster 11 so I could use a nice Zorro III GFX card. Anything else? :-)

[x56h34]

@redrumloa:

Good call. I'll look into it.

How about the ZIP memory? I see that SoftHut has it in their online catalog. How many of those do I need? 1X4 Page Mode Zip RAM...does that mean 4 chips forming 1MB?

[x56h34]

I would like to be able to use the 16MB on-board memory for a while, as I will keep it around stock specs until I get it accelerated. Where to get those ZIP chips cheap? :-)