A3000, what do I need to know?

[Castellen]

Just about to fit a Cyberstorm MK2 to my A3000D.
Received the 060 board from Ireland today, so providing it works, I should have a speedy A3000.

I read a post on A.org a week or two ago where someone said you absolutely must fit latest revisions of Buster, DMAC, etc.
After investigating, I found no reason why you'd need to use latest revisions.

Buster rev 11 is required for the few expansions which use direct memory access.  I'm using a Picasso IV GFX card which does not use DMA, so in theory should work fine.

One point to note is some 3rd party CPU boards and most SCSI controllers on CPU boards will need a minor motherboard modification to work due to a missing signal on the A3000D CPU slot.
Also known as the INT_2 modification, detailed instructions are in the Aminet recent uploads list, or from the misc downloads section of my website:

http://amiga.serveftp.net

Anthony.

[Castellen]

Just for the record, I fitted the Cyberstorm mkII+128Mb to the A3000D and it works perfectly.
The motherboard has all the (old) standard devices fitted, other than the OS 3.1 ROMs.

The SCSI hard drive was slow and crappy, but with PFS3 now on it, the whole thing really flies!  :-)