Darren,
The A3000 keeps it's SCSI settings in battery backed up memory,
setbatt can restore these settings.
They are:
SCSI Preferences,
Long SCSI Timeout (Seacrate Mode)
Synchronous Transfer
Support Multiple LUNs
Host Adapter
It might happen that you need to reset these, if I power off my A3000
I have to reset SCSI Synchronous Transfer. This does not stop my
A3000 from booting though.
For Workbench, what ROMs do you have?
The A3000 has 3 types. 1.4 boot roms that softkick a rom image from
hard drive, 2 roms that do not need a hard drive installed rom image
and 3.1 roms, which I have and is the best option.
Workbench 2 will install on 2 and 3 roms, boot from floppy and use
hard drive toolbox to set your hard drive if needed (you can just copy
the boot floppy to hard drive and change s:startup-sequence and
user-startup to point to hard drive insted of floppy, if needed).
With 1.4 roms you will need to set your hard drive up with hard drive
toolbox (from your install disks), call the boot hard drive partition
wb_2.x in hard drive toolbox and set the drives boot partition to
FFS with out DC or international checked. Your KickStart image should
be in DEVS: This is because V.36 boot roms boot the machine and look
for a hard drive called wb_2.x to find a kickstart 2.x or 3.x rom
image then reboot using the hard drive kickstart. The kickstart
image must be for a A3000.
Have a look at my website, it is about the A3000. Feel free to email
me :-)
Others:
CRC 2.26 (or another electrical component cleaner) works wonders for
cleaning the white gunk from a leaking battery off your computer.
Wiped it once years ago, no gunk "growback". We used this (crc 2.26)
to clean the white gunk off telephone terminals on telephone poles
(the spiders did not like it though!). It works, is safe, does not
contain a lube like crc 5.56 or wd40 does and you can keep the rest of
the can in the car for battery terminals etc. :-)
