A3000D, Cloanto 3.X, bad floppy?

[jupo42]

Hey all,

Has anyone had success with the "official" Cloanto 3.X ROMS on an A3000D?

Everything was fine with 2.0 before I ordered these chips, but after getting them installed, now every floppy I have comes up as a non-DOS disk. For the life of me I haven't been able to find one of my external floppy drives yet, but a spare internal drive did the exact same thing, and again, it was just working perfectly before the upgrade.

Any ideas on something I might have messed up in the process? I can't boot up with the 3.X disk set, I can't copy the workbench.library onto the HD...

[jupo42]

Thanks. Got an external drive hooked up and the same issue. Ripped it all down and put the 2.0 ROMS back (what a pain - the A2k is so much easier to get to), and the drives work fine once again. *SIGH* Guess I get to send the chips back.

[jupo42]

Cloanto made updated ROMs for each system based on the work they'd done with Amiga Forever. They call it 3.X because it includes a lot of the 3.5/3.9 fixes. Their license to distribute the OS includes being able to sell physical copies, so even though it is pretty much a burned EPROM with a professional label on top, it's the closest to an official ROM that's being made currently.

Like the A4000T it moves workbench.library to disk to make room for the patches.

Really really wish I hadn't lost my two A2065s. Null modem transfers back and forth from the PC are painful.

[jupo42]

Just a theory at the moment, so don't go giving anyone grief, but it's possible that the EPROMs being sourced for these Cloanto labelled ROM sets don't actually meet the minimum access timing for the A3000.

I thought about that too, but since I've got a 030/25 system, I don't think I can slow down the timing any further than the default, as far as real world testing.

I'll report it to the store and to Cloanto, but I'm not super upset since they were pretty cheap, so is there anyone who wants to dig deeper into this, either with another A3k or testing equipment I don't have?