What are the slots on the A3000D daughterboard?

[Darrin]

@ Amiduffer:

Did you just buy a card from Software Hut too?  I still trying to decide whether to fit the one I ordered into my A2000 or A3000.  Why the hell didn't Commodore stick to the A2000 case when they released the A3000.  The lack of a 5.25" bay for an IDE CD ROM drive bugs the hell out of me.   :-D

[Darrin]

Amiduffer wrote:
Hi Darrin.

Yes, the Softhut offer was a pretty darn good offer, so I took advantage of it.

If you put it in your A3000, make sure that your Buster chip is the newer Rev.11, as I learned to my chagrin.

Ah, thanks for that tip.  I picked my A3000 up second hand so I'm not sure what the Buster revison is.  What happens if it is an older one?

All I have in the A3000 is fully populated RAM sockets, an IDE interface and Kickstart 3.1.  I'm running OS3.5 which I installed using Siamese v2.5 to link the A3000 to my PC in order to use the PC CD ROM.

When I bought the Cybervision card I also bought the kickstart 3.1 ROMS for the A2000.  The A2000 has a SCSI/RAM card and nothing else.  I also grabbed a copy of OS3.9.

So, do I expand the A3000 which has a faster processor and the built in SDFF or do I transfer the IDE card to the A2000 and expand that.  I have a soft spot for the A2000 as my first two Amigas were an A2000 and an A1500.

[Darrin]

adolescent wrote:
@xaccrocheur/560SL

You connect the native video to the pass-through port on the CV64, then the CV64 to your monitor.  The CV64 does the switching for you.

Doesn't the CV643D do exactly that if you have purchase and install the optional SDFF module?  I'm sure I read that in the manual I downloaded.  Plus you get more video RAM as standard on the CV643D.