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Offline Ami_GFX

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Re: HighFlyer
« on: January 04, 2012, 06:24:20 PM »
I own one of these too. It is an ongoing project. They were specifially designed for Toaster Flyer setups and the isa slots are power and ground only so TBCs and Vectorscopes could be used. They won't work with a bridgeboard.  At the moment, I have my Toaster 4000 in it along with a Kitchen Sync, Ycp-100 and the Picasso II and Fastlane z3 I had in my A4000 before I got the highflyer case. I would like to eventually get a Flyer Card and have a full toaster flyer setup. With some of the 2.5" scsi drives available these days, I even think it's possible to run it on a stock 150W A4000 power supply. Mine came with a corroded and nonfuntioning power supply which I gutted and put the A4000 internal drive bay in. Without a Flyer and a 2.5" ide drive I'm going to replace with a CF card , I'm using around 90 watts so I've got around 60 watts left for a Flyer and 3 2.5" scsi drives--another 5-10 watts maybe when I get the CF card in.

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/ has some good photos of the inside.

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/highflyer has a good description but only has photos of the extender card
A2500 owned since 1993 with A2630/DKB 2632, DKB Megachip, GVP EGS Spectrum, A2320 and GVP HC+8 on the inside and a DCTV on the outside. A4000D with CSPPC, Cybervision 64 and a Flicker Magic flicker fixer. A4000T Toaster Flyer & CSMKII. All systems completly retro and classic and mostly used to do geometic art as in my avatar.
 

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Re: HighFlyer
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2012, 11:23:41 PM »
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I have an extra Flyer card if you want to buy one for your system.  Contact me via email at earthlink.net and we can discuss price and shipping.

I would also like more info about using 2.5" SCSI drives with a Flyer system.  I didn't know that these drives were still available, so will go do some searching.  I know DiscreetFX also offered some kind of SSD's for use with Flyer systems that I might look into.  The old SCSI drives are just so noisy and produce too much extra heat.  I have a box of 18gb to 73gb SCSI-2, or SCSI-3 drives here, but I am now thinking of other alternatives to use with my Flyer setup.


These are not the old powerbook scsi drives. They are 80 pin SAS drives that are mostly used in servers. They commonly come in 36gb and 72gb sizes. The 80pin sas to 50 pin adapters are cheap. The drives are a good deal too. There must be a big market for them in server farms because they can be had a lot cheaper than ide or sata drives of the same size. SSDs would be ideal but they're really expensive as are ide to scsi converters.

I'm too broke after christmas to buy anything right now but I will be putting some stuff on ebay soon and I will send you an email when I get some money.
A2500 owned since 1993 with A2630/DKB 2632, DKB Megachip, GVP EGS Spectrum, A2320 and GVP HC+8 on the inside and a DCTV on the outside. A4000D with CSPPC, Cybervision 64 and a Flicker Magic flicker fixer. A4000T Toaster Flyer & CSMKII. All systems completly retro and classic and mostly used to do geometic art as in my avatar.