Hi, New to the Amiga with 2000

[SprPsycho]

Hi  :-)

I've never so much as touched an Amiga before, though I've been intersted in the Amiga for a while and I just got myself an Amiga 2000 yesterday.

It has a SCSI card and hard drive installed.... 2MB of RAM, a 14Mhz Adspeed, smells like cigarrettes(yeck) and isn't seeing the hard drive.  

It came with two floppies:

Workbench 2.1 and
Workbench 2.1 install

I was told that it did work, but that when they set it up to check before bringing it they couldn't get it to boot to the hard drive and it doesn't show when I boot to the floppies...

I have tried to use utilities on the install disk but they don't seem to see the hard disk when I try to partition or format it.

In general, I have apsolutly no idea what I'm doing. I've never been too good at getting SCSI going. Once I get it working I want to chuck a CD-ROM drive in that big gaping hole where the 5.25" face plate is missing and maybe get it on the ethernet network alongside my Apple IIgs.

[SprPsycho]

I get a purple screen with a disk interting into a floppy drive if I turn it on with no disk mounted.

The Adspeed Accelerator might have IDE?  Now that'd be awsome..... Now.... I just need to figure out which card is the Adspeed  :-D  Is it that card I saw sitting rased over the motherboard underneith the drive bays?..

I'm going to go get a screw driver and open it back up...

[SprPsycho]

Well, I don't think the Adspeed has an IDE interface.  But if I can get an IDE interface for my 2000 that would allow me to use a Hard drive and CD-ROM drive I'd really like to do that and forget about SCSI.  I was told though that IDE interfaces are hard to come by.

[SprPsycho]

Well, the SCSI card.  It just says "HARD DISK CONTROLLER GX B-VO 8829" on it...

As for roms....I saw three chips with similar labels and wasn't sure which one was which....

Here's what was on them....

All three had the first two lines on their labels:

copyright 1988 CBM
All Rights Reserved

First one read "309230-02 2090 3145"

Second "31508-01 2090 AB5C"

third "315097-01 2090 D32B

I can take pictures if nessessary.

On a side note, when I took out the SCSI card I discoverd the RAM card could actually be uped to 8MB or RAM...so I'll be looking to do that in a little bit here...

[SprPsycho]

So this SCSI card isn't bootable?  eeew.

[SprPsycho]

I'd say that SCSI card looks an awfull lot like mine..outside of a few different colors here and there.

Anyway, for what it's worth I took a photo earlier....

[SprPsycho]

So.... are there different IDE interfaces out there?  Ones that won't work with CD ROM drives or anything I should be warry of?

[SprPsycho]

If I'm going to have SCSI anything I'd probably rather just get it to workt with both the CD ROM and Hard drive.

I found one SCSI card on ebay sofar... an "A2091 REV 4.1 SCSI controller".  

[SprPsycho]

Is $75 too much for one with rev 7 roms?  I found one that's not on ebay.

[SprPsycho]

Thanks for all the advice so far... and offers too...I've got a SCSI card on the way now.  SCSI cards on the Amiga are a lot cheaper than they are on the Apple II.