New A2000

[Darrin]

@ K4lmp

Keep an eye out on ebay for a SDFF.  I managed to pick up one of the old Commodore models that uses the same Amber ship that is in the A3000 and works a treat.

I'm not sure if any of the Indivision ECS models work in the A2000, but I have one of those in my A4000 and that's the bee's knees.  

Take a look at these for some alternative options:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=amiga+scan+doubler&_sacat=0&_odkw=amiga+sdff&_osacat=0&_from=R40

[Darrin]

So, I've been looking at Classic WB.  That page totally confuses me.  Do you have to download and install with WinUAE on a drive?  All of the versions listed are for different target machines.  I am sorry to ask so many questions, I try to read up all I can.

Yes, you'll need to use WinUAE because the site is "legal" and the downloads are missing certain files contained on the Workbench disks.

I've installed several versions of ClassicWB onto HDF files and real hard drives using WinUAE (Amiga Forever version).

Just follow the instructions step-by-step and you can't go wrong.

The only issue I see is that you have a SCSI hard drive, so trying to get the data moved from your PC onto the drive is going to be a major pain.  You might want to wait, order a 3.1 Kickstart ROM and find a SCSI-IDE or SCSI to USB adapter and that way you can install one of the more "pretty" versions of ClassicWB directly onto the SCSI drive while it is attached to the PC (WinUAE can mount it as a real Amiga drive).  You can then insert it into the A2000 and it should boot.

Also, while it is still attached to the PC, you could download KillerGorilla's WHDload game packs from his website and install a few of your favourite games onto the hard drive.  Come to think of it, you might want to track down a larger hard drive too.

[Darrin]

i would just the the SCSI CF reader(that i linked above) and just build the OS on a CF with inexpensive CF-IDE adapter.

those IDE->SCSI things are $$$, and what do you have at the end of the day, AOS on a drive whose MTBF was 10 years ago...

I agree.  

I have a CF card in my A2000 and I put ClassicWB on that by simply putting the card in my PC's CF slot, mounting it as a real Amiga drive in WinUAE (Make sure you run WinUAE "as an administrator" or the option to mount the card as a hard drive will be grayed-out).  Booted into a UAE Workbench environment, formatted the card (I think I used PSF3 or SFS as two 2GB partitions).  Then I followed the instrucions on the ClassicWB site to install their Workbench.

Keep a WinUAE setting to "emulate" your A2000 using that card and then when you want to download something for your Amiga you can pull the card from the A2000, put it in the PC and use WinUAE to copy the downloaded file(s) from the PC's hard drive to Workbench on your CF card.  Then just put the card back into your A2000.

You can even keep back-up images of your CF card on the PC just in case you trash the CF card and need to reinstall it again.

[Darrin]

Also, if you're missing your Workbench disks to make the ClassicWB installation then look in the news section here and buy teh downloadable version of Amiga Forever.  It comes with ADF versions of the Workbench disks that you can use to make ClassicWB.  Also, once you have your hard drive set up you can use your A2000 to turn these ADFs back into real Amiga floppies.

[Darrin]

Well, I bought one of the CF to SCSI adapters that you linked to in a previous post.  My computer has a card reader built in.  Now I have to figure out how to run WinUAE from Linux.

Or ask a friend who has Windows to lend you his PC for an hour.

[Darrin]

The A1200 Workbench disks should work fine with your A2000.  I've used the same ones on mine.

Check your inbox for a PM.

[Darrin]

I have an old 2091 with 2MB sat on a shelf.  From what I gather it is a pretty nasty old SCSI card and has some limitations.  Does the CPU card have a SCSI header on it (I don't think the A2630 does)?  If it does then connect your hard drive to that.

Also, I think your main RAM card was probably set to 4MB because the previous owner might have been using a Zorro graphics card or similar.  Try setting it to 6MB and hopefully you'll find you have 1MB Chip and 10MB Fast (2MB CPU card + 2MB SCSI card + 6MB RAM card).

Here's some tips from the Big Book of Amiga Hardware on the 2091:

The hard drive power connector on the board is not a reliable way to power a card-mounted hard drive. Use the connectors attached directly to the power supply instead.

The version 7 ROM fixes the following bugs in the 6.6 ROM
 - >1GB HD support
 - DMA reselection bug fixed
 - disconnect/reconnect performance improved a lot
 - Sync messages are handled
 - Error handling improved
 - Sync problems with Seagate/Syquest fixed
 - Removable media recognition fixed
 - Slow boot jumper now does a 15 second wait plus 300ms scan



If that information is correct, then your 6.6 ROMs might only allow you to use a CF card =< 1GB.

[Darrin]

Well, the A520 is good, works on my A500.  Not good.  I guess I will have to see if voltage is coming out of the A2000's video port to power the A500.

Even if the video port is fried (assuming the worst), a flicker-fixer that inserts into the video slot could get around that.

Hopefully this isn't the case though.