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Re: A2000 video and network expansion
« on: June 15, 2013, 10:10:02 PM »
Network can be accomplished with A2065, X-Surf, Adriane etc. Or via RS232 / parallell port (slow).
Surfing can be done with Amosaic.

How much RAM does it have?
 

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Re: A2000 video and network expansion
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2013, 08:02:41 PM »
What SCSI controller do you use? and what SCSI drive do you use? What other cards are installed?
 

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Re: A2000 video and network expansion
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2013, 01:31:02 AM »
Just remember to make sure it has Zorro-II interface ;)

Anyway the A2091 SCSI controller seems to support 32-bit LBA (2 TB) according to the datasheet for the WD33C93B controller chip so it's likely a software issue.

That leaves the OS, so one possible solution is to create a harddisk image in UAE (emulator for Amiga) and then dump it to the harddisk using dd. That makes RDB and filesystem to mask the fact that the disk is huge right from start.
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Re: A2000 video and network expansion
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2013, 03:44:24 AM »
Ever found any Amiga software for Voodoo3 ..? ;)
 

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Re: A2000 video and network expansion
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2013, 04:02:07 PM »
Quote from: CBM 1993
* Hard drives with capacities greater than 1 gigabyte are now supported.
Guess that means that previous versions before 7.0 for A2091 do not.. ;)
 

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Re: A2000 video and network expansion
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2013, 10:37:15 PM »
So it manages > 1GByte. But does that mean it will manage 2 TByte? (32-bit LBA)
 

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Re: A2000 video and network expansion
« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2013, 02:25:04 AM »
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No idea.... are there any 2TB SCSI drives that would interface to the A2091? And if there were, why would anyone want one on a classic Amiga? (Except for maybe a Flyer.) I never even filled up the 500MB drive glommed from the old external mac drive.


I'm trying to determine where the limit is not if there was a physical drive at the maximum size.