A2000

[just4funuk]

Have decided to try and bring an Amiga 2000 back to life. Only problem is its not like the good old Amiga 4000 I use to have (Wish I had never sold it)It has no harddrive interface built onboard.My question are as follows.

1)The machine has a memory expansion and what looks to be a PC XT emulator card and an ISA harddrive controller (IDE) only had a quick look will double check this.Is there a way of using the controllers on this with the Amiga side or can the controllers only be used by the PC emulator board.


Thanks for any advice will post many more questions in the future that is almost certain.

[just4funuk]

MichaelB

Think the Harddrive controller was IDE as the connector looks like standard 40pin socket from what I remember. Will try to check this over the weekend. If this is correct would like to try the method you are suggesting.(untill I get a SCSI controller off ebay)

Thanks again to everyone has posted and to anyone who continues to post. Any idea or suggestions are welcome.

[just4funuk]

Have just purchased a ADSCSI 2080 Ram Upgrade For Amiga 1500 / 2000 and I have a Fusion 68040 card on the way.

So once the Boards are installed hope to have spec Below

Amiga 2000 16MB
Fusion Forty 68040 Accelerator Card
ADSCSI 2080
Have a 1GB HD drive in it at the moment but hopefully will get a larger one.

Next will be a Graphics Card.

Thank you ebay

motrucker wrote:

FrankBrana wrote:

The best you can do is to get a turboboard, which usually comes with SIMM ram banks ( except gvp ones, which you have to avoid ) and scsi interface. then a Z2 capable GFX card, and youre almost done

Regards

Even the GVP can be great, just make sure it is fully populted with RAM if you buy one.
Mine is much like yours, except I have a GVP 040/SCSI, a GVP Spectrum video card, and a megachip 2000. Having 2Mb of chip RAM helps, even with the graphics card.

[just4funuk]

A2000
Have installed SCSI Card and Fusion Forty.

Problems I have which need possible help.

Which OS would be more stable on machine WB2 or WB3.

Have little luck in getting WB2 installed and running.Have got WB3 to copied to Hd0: by using instructions in ADSCSI manual. copy DF0: Hd0: all

But due to scripts on disk have to insert floppy disk half way through install.Does work but would like to install the WB correctly is there any where I can get an install utility to setup the WB correctly. Must point out wouldnt work with either of the original WB disks 2 or 3 had and but had an old disk that could of been used on A1200 many years ago this is the one I am booting machine at the moment with then I assign in shell.(so HD is used)


thanks in advance for any help


 

[just4funuk]

Running Kickstart Version 2.0 (37.175)

Have tried using WB 2.05
and WB 3.0 Disks

Am going to see if I can get SCSI CDROM drive to work.As have approx approx 20-30 Amiga CD cover Disks that I would like to Access .Instead of copying the Data across on 720K format PC disks which is not always possible.Also can burn Aminet data to disk on PC and use on Amiga.(Sorry for using the word PC)

Thanks For any advice


 

[just4funuk]

have now got Workbench 2.05 installed on Harddisk but have to boot via floppy and re-assign as trying to boot from Harddrive causes machine power light to flash and machine to just re-boot.

1) So at present hold mouse to stop machine booting from Harddisk.Insert Workbench 2.05 Floppy in DF0: and IDSCSI in DF1:

2)Assign Devs and c to df1: ADSCSI Floppy Disk

3)run ICDmount (all drives come up and now re-assign to DH0:)

4)Works ok like this but cant install IDEFIX97 to get CDRom support as Floppy does not have enough space).Would also pref if it just booted of Harddrive would make life so much easier.

Poss solutions might try but need some advice before spend money I dont need to.

Method one is to play with Startup sequence to find what is causing machine to reboot in loop as seems to work off Floppy if Disabel auto-boot of garddisk.

Method two is remove Kickstart Rom chip from A500+ and put it in A2000 and then try re-installing Workbench 2.05.Will ADSCSI 2080 and Fusion Forty be ok under Kickstart 2.05.

Method three is to Buy Kickstart 3.1 and install Workbench 3.0 (Will Fusion forty and ADSCSI work under this setup).

Any advice gratefully received  

[just4funuk]

Glitch

Have to be honest didn't know there was an install disk as have two sets of Workbench 2.05 and both only have Workbench,Extras and Fonts.So thought I had a full set of  Workbench 2.05 disks.Thanks for the info.


TjLaZer

Hitting escape had no effect all I can say is I get a Fast kick loading screen when it boots.Holding right  mouse button while booting brings up a Fusion forty control menu SetFF operation NOFASTKICK or exit below this greyed out are the following options FastKick with a tick instpack no tick and diagnostic.Then below this is a cancel button which exits the menu.TjLazer thanks for the link to th eproms but dont have anyway at present of using them rom images.So with the infomation you have supplied think I will try to get either Workbench 2.05 or 2.1 installed on it corrcetly.

[just4funuk]

Update

Problem was in startup-sequence and mountlist.
Copied Workbench 1.3 to machine and machine boots ok but shell causes machine to guru.

Copied Workbench 2.1 to machine wont boot so copied Workbench 1.3 startup-sequence and mountlist.

Machine now boots so far and have to type loadwb to finish startup-sequence as there is a reference in the startup-sequence to  run the command fastmemoryfirt which Workbench 2.1 does not seem to have in the c folder.
But it is present on Workbench 1.3 disk.

Have also managed to get my idefix97 install so also have access to CDrom's now.

Also how do I assign the paths to tools

so the machine knows where  iconx is in c

Have just been altering the infomation on each app to point to dh0:c/iconx but there must be a way to make a link between :iconx = dh0:c/iconx so one assignment is enough.

thanks again for any pointers.

[just4funuk]

Amiga 2000
Well after not much luck getting the older OS stable I decided pos to look at going for a newer kickstart OS installation and Brought OS 3.5 with the next step to buy the Kickstart Roms.But found out that the Fusion Forty would need New roms as well. Which I dont know how easy they would be to get and at what cost.Then would I have problems with ICDSCSI 2080 with Kickstart 3.1.

So am I wrong in thinking Workbench 2 will not install onto a A2000 with Kickstart 2.0 (37.175) roms and I need to look at installing either  Workbench 1.3 on currant setup or see if I can find a Kickstart 2.05 Rom and then try installing Workbench 2+.

Trying to locate a Full workbench set.But which version do you suggest I should be installing on A2000 with Kickstart 2.0 37.175.

Was thinking if I can get Kickstart 2.X installed and then poss use SKICK to run KIckstart 3.1 to see if Fusion forty and ADSCSI 2080 would work.If they do would then buy 3.1 kickstart chips and then installing OS 3.5 .

But first need to walk before I run so would like a stable OS installation on current setup.

 

[just4funuk]

Thanks for the offer to supply Fusion Forty roms email sent.

[just4funuk]

Dreaming that maybe I might some day soon have


Amiga 2000 with Kickstart 3.1
OS 3.5 installed
1MB Chip
Fusion Forty with 18MB
ICDSCSI 2080
1GB HD
IBM CDrom

Running stable


Next step after above would be bigger harddrive.

[just4funuk]

Amiga 2000 now has Kickstart 3.1 roms installed.But still  having problems installing OS.

Installing the KIckstart roms has stopped the Accelerator working which was pointed out before and new roms will soon be purchased from TjLaZer.

But have tried to install OS 3.1 with Accelerator disabled and still have problem with startup sequence machine restarts.This is using the 3.1 install disk to install OS.

eplace  Start-sequence  with 1.3 start-sequence and machine will boot and fail.At prompt if I then type loadWB Workbench loads but all Software eg Iconx,multiview are not assined.

Has anynone got a good working 3.1 startup-sequence that will work with the ICDSCSI2080 Harddrive controller please post it on here so I can try it or tell me how to assign tools such as more,Iconx etc.

Thanks

[just4funuk]

Sorry about the Delay tjlazer

[just4funuk]

Ok the ongoing A2000 rebuild (I Wish I had never started)

Amiga 2000 already had
Amiga 2000 keyboard
ICDSCSI 2080  
Fusion Forty
Amiga 2000 Kickstrat 3.1 Roms
Fusion Forty Roms
Amiga Workbench 3.1
Amiga Workbench 3.5

Above purchased over last 9 months except actual amiga 2000 been sitting gathering dust for 2-3 years in bedroom.

Have now got

Amiga 2000
Kickstart 3.1 Roms
ICDSCSI 2080
Fusion Forty + 20MB Ram with new Roms (Workbench 3.1 now sees Fusion Forty again).(Thanks to TJlazer).

But still after trying to install clean installation of Workbench 3.1 I am still no nearer getting machine up and running. Have to laugh or would cry.

Wish I had just got an emulator (LOL)

Not had much free time to look at this at the moment.

Boots Ok from Floppy if stop ADSCSI auto booting (by holding mouse button on boot) .Can then mount the ADSCSI partitions after booting from floppy. But if try to boot from HD A2000 power light just flashes and machine just shows a guru message.

If anyone out there has a A2000 with ADSCSI card and FusionForty running Workbench 3.1 or 3.5 Please could you give me a copy of your startup-sequence as this is where mine is having the problem I suspect.




 

[just4funuk]

If Use workbench 3.1 startup-sequence machine gets stuck in loop.

If remove startup-sequence from HD0:s/

Machine boots from internal harddrive type loadwb and wb is loaded if
replace startup-sequence with one off ADSCSI installation disk
startup-sequence.hd saved to HD0:s/startup-sequence
machine will boot and fail on Fastmemoryfirst (Workbench 3.1 does not have this) Hence why it fails.

If then type Loadwb
WB loads.

Really do need to look at startup-sequence and see what in the workbench 3.1 version is causing machine to fail once this is removed from startup-sequence suspect machine will boot correctly and wont need any more editing.

Could be wrong
Wouldn't be the first time.


Watch out for next installment.