Booting an A2000 of an external floppy drive?

[AmigaEd]

Hello Amigans,
I have an A2000 without any internal floppy drives installed. I can pull a drive out of my other A2000 but I thought that I woud first ask if it is possible to boot an A2000 using an external floppy drive as I have a few of them to choose from.

Thank You,
AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

Well, I gave it a try by just connecting the external drive hoping that it would default to df0: but it didn't seem to work.

The bummer is that I'm stuck with KS1.2 in this machine for now.

Is there a jumper setting that can be changed on the mother board or in the external floppy so that it can be recognized as df0: ?

-AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

@Acill,
Well, I ended up doing as you suggested. I tore apart one of my external floppy drives and plugged it into the A2000 and it works fine.

I still would like to like to know for sure if booting from an external floppy is possible on the A2000 and if so with which KS.

Thanks,
AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

@Argus, Thanks for the info. I think I'll try and prove that out once I get beyond some of these other problems.

Well, after spending a completely good Sunday trying to figure this out, I have discovered that I can see the controller and drive under KS2.0 and WB 2.0 I can almost even get the software to load the system onto the Drive to work correctly.

When I try to use the AdSCSI 2000 and Quantum drive in my System with KS1.3 and WB1.3 the ICDPrepHD software seems to hang at part where it looks for the controller card and drive.

I even tried formattting the drive and putting os1.3 on it while I had it in the 2.0 system, but that didn't seem to work either.

So, I kind of wondering which direction I should go with this now. Any suggestions appreciated

-AmigaEd