Classic Amigas - Still Useful?

[Ami_GFX]

The classic Amiga personality when I boot it up is: Lets do something fun and creative. I can't say the same for my laptop. I can easily be distracted by an email, even if I am having some fun and mostly what I do is business. It's stimulating, yes, but not pure fun in any sense. My classic Amigas are sheer joy and fun. I wouldn't never contaminate them with the distractions of web browsing and email. That's business. I turn my Amiga's on to do some art and have some fun.

[Ami_GFX]

Go figure... the Quantum ProDrive LPS 240 in this A3K is apparently going flakey and it will not boot anymore.  HDToolBox will recognize it but it cannot properly read the driver geometry nor can it save the geometry information (Error 4 on write!) is what I get.  to top that off, it appears to have a random lockup here and there when booted to the 3.1 install  floppy and I don't know if it's related to the HD issue or not.

I have some U320 SCSI drives and am waiting for an active terminatior (already have the 80 pin to 68  & 50 adapters) but then I found a thread that IBM drives are a crapshoot and low and behold these are IBM drives that I have sitting around.

The deck seems to be stacked against me... I'm seriously considering parting with this thing.  I'll wait until I try the active terminator to see if perhaps it's all related to an outgoing drive but I'm not going to hold my breath.

I wouldn't try a U320 in an A3000. A 1-4gb 50 pin SCSI II drive will work better in such an old system.
And it might not be the drive, it could be the controller on the MB.

It might not be so much money but it will be time and effort. I almost parted with my A2500 a few years ago but instead rebuilt it. The main part was a new MB. And a better SCSI card than the 2091 it came with. It cost some money but it was fun and satisfying to do.