A2000 HD Controller Question

[Ami_GFX]

The drive was connected to a 2090 controller. It is a small drive--50mb at the most most likely and slow even by 1990s standards. It would be much better to get a newer SCSI controller--an A2091 at least and a 500mb-1gb scsi drive. This would give you a fairly usable system and wouldn't cost that much. The controller might cost you $50 or so but the disk would cost you next to nothing. There are many different HD controllers for the A2000. Read about some of them at the Amiga Hardware Database. There are 2 or 3 listed on Ebay at the moment--a 2091 and a Dataflyer and maybe 1 or 2 more.

[Ami_GFX]

Forget SCSI, unless you can pick up a SCSI card on eBay with some extra RAM fitted.

SCSI rocks if you set it up right. And since this is obviously an older A2000 with older--telling us which version would be helpful--kickstart, I would say that going from an A2090 to an A2091 controller would be the easiest way to go. The A2091 was designed for this machine. I have been buying SCSI drives from around $1-$5 locally--and $5 got me 3 18gb 80 pin server drives that I can use with my Flyer along with all the cables and terninators. There are also GVP accelerators with built in SCSI. One of these would do wonders for you.