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Amiga 3000 - Cabling Question
« on: May 12, 2011, 02:33:27 PM »
I've had an A3000 for a few years that I picked up on ebay.  I pulled it all apart to take pics, remove the battery, etc. and then ended up storing it until recently... in pieces.

I wanted to put it back together and see what is on it and make that *ever difficult* decision of if I want to sell it to someone who would get more use out of it or keep it for those rainy days when I long for an Amiga again :).

The problem is, I forget how the SCSI and Floppy cables need to be hooked up and don't want to fry anything.  I seem to recall that, at least for the floppy, the twist had to be on a certain side of the mobo and/or drive.  The SCSI I'm not too sure about.

Can someon help with this one?  I pulled down an PDF of the manual and tried searching Google but didn't find anything helpful.

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Re: Amiga 3000 - Cabling Question
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2011, 12:44:23 AM »
Thanks to both of you!  I have it up and running again.  Though I'm not totally sure what OS it has since the HD volume name references 2.x but the label references 3.1, and there is a lot of software on the 240 MB drive that I need to filter through, I do know the hardware is:

68030/68882 @ 25Mhz
Rev 6.1 Modified Motherboard
240MB HD
FB-354 880K Floppy (w/broken button)
FB-357A 1.76MB Floppy
2MB Chip RAM
4MB Fast RAM

Anyone know where I can land a 1GB or better SCSI I drive and external CD SCSI I drive (I'm guessing the response will be ebay most likely) and what models I should look for?  I'd like to load this from scratch without giving up what came with it and use OS3.5 or perhaps OS3.9 with it eventually should I decide to keep it in the end.  Would need a Picasso IV of course...

You know, I'm kicking myself because believe it or not, I had an A3000 that I sold back in 1998 and it was pretty much the dream config...


2Mb Chip RAM
16MB Fast RAM
1GB HD
32X External CD-ROM
Picasso IV

LOL the only thing I wanted for it was a high density floppy and could never find one... sold uut to the man and got into PC's.  good choice though since my career is based on them now but I still wish I'd kept it...