Amiga 2000 hardware questions

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Any SCSI harddrive will work with that C= card. The way to find out if it works is to put a harddrive on it, plug it in, and fit the card in the zorro slot.

All you need is your workbench installer disk to format it with.

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WhiteDwarf wrote:

The A2000 has 2.0 ROMS, and I have workbench 1.3 & 2.1 disks.

I imagine I have to use the workbench 2.1?

I don't know what the Zorro slot is, sorry...

The slot you circled is called a Zorro slot.

Yes, with 2.0 roms you use WB 2.1.

Go here for tech info on your card. LINK to BBOAH

Oh, just in case, heres a site for intstaller disks, if you need it. Installer Heaven

[Amiduffer]

Find a PC running Win 2000 or less.

Put a DD floppy in the PC

Format it at 770k

Boot up Amiga

Open the Storage drawer, move PC0 into DEVS/DOSdrivers

and you should be able to move files back and forth from the Amiga to the PC.

If you have CrossDos or MessyDos, you can use those too.

Glad that the Amiga can still make you happy.  :-)

edit: hmm. backup the HD. One way is to use the HDBackup program that comes with your WorkBench. Be sure to have a lot of floppies. Check out www.aminet.net for other backup programs. I like Abackup personally.

If you feel daring, try and hook up an external CDRW to the 500 through the DataFlyer and install this makeCD