"New" Amiga 3000....

[560SL]

First, congratulations to your purchase! The A3000 will bring you many hours of fun hacking. It is truly a great system!

I recently did a battery change as described earlier; soldering on the underside of the mobo. Works great. Only thing I had to do was to solder extra wire on the battery holder to allow it to reach up from the underside. The battery and holder is resting above Paula.

As for the ECS Indivision, I have one in my system. It gives a slightly better image than Amber, so if youre picky about rock steady image, certainly recommended.

Though I would probably go for the WD chip update first, especially if you are planning on using the onboard SCSI. Rev 4 is notorious for giving strange lockups for no apparent reason.

Would also strongly recommend a Buster upgrade. If you only have rev 7, Deneb USB wont work. You need at least rev 9 or 11. Vesalia have them from time to time:
http://www.vesalia.de/e_buster11.htm

Can also recommend a PLCC Extraction tool for Buster swap:
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=29&products_id=417

[560SL]

I bought the SCM PCD-50B SCSI Card Reader a while back, I did some attempt to connect it to the internal SCSI on the A3000, but no cards would ever show up. Never put any further effort in tracking down problem then. Would be interesting to see how easy it plugs into your system. Keep posting!

I would prefer to have the reader in an external SCSI box, ultimately in an A3070.

I also tried to connect the reader to the CyberstormPPC card, but with no luck. Bare in mind CSPPC have UW SCSI3, it *should* work...

Works brilliant with the internal SCSI on A4000T and Trifecta SCSI for A500.

[560SL]

I bought this kind of battery replacement:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/COIN-LITHIUM-BATTERY-BACKUP-for-AMIGA-4000-3000-2000-/220956987868?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item33721011dc

Might consider to attach longer wires to the legs and do the solder on the underside of the motherboard. Wont fit under Indivision ECS.