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Amiga 2000 hardware questions
« on: July 16, 2007, 05:51:30 PM »
I pulled out the Amiga stuff out of my closet last night.

First off, I have this EZ-VGA thingy that allows me to hook up a VGA monitor to my AMIGA 500 and 2000.

The monitor looks great when I use this to connect to the A500.  I have 2 Amiga 2000's, and the screen flickers to death and the image quality is very poor on both the A2000's.  Is the VGA unit I have only supposed to be used with the A500?

I bought some A2000 stuff off eBay many years ago.  I got a HD controller.  All it says on the card is that it's made by Commodore, and it says "Hard Drive for A2500"

Do I need software to format a drive through this card?  If so, where do I get it?  How do I even know if the card is working?

I also have a MiniScribe HD that used to be connected to a Data Flyer unit that had a 50 pin SCSI connector.  The drive has two cables coming out of it, a 34 pin connector and a 20 pin connector.  I for the life of me can't remember how this connected to the 50 pin plug on the Data Flyer.

I notice the Commodore HD controller I have has a 34 pin plug, and 2 20 pin plugs.  Are these for connecting this type of HD?

One of the Amiga 2000's booted up to the HD just fine, then after I played with it a bit, upon powering up, the SCSI HD spins for a bit then stops...  What happened?  Now I have to boot from a disk...


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Re: Amiga 2000 hardware questions
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2007, 07:03:26 PM »
The card was plugged into this slot: http://usera.imagecave.com/Whitedwarf/A2000/A2000.JPG

The A2000 has 2.0 ROMS, and I have workbench 1.3 & 2.1 disks.

I imagine I have to use the workbench 2.1?

I don't know what the Zorro slot is, sorry...
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Re: Amiga 2000 hardware questions
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2007, 08:23:23 PM »
Great, thanks for youR help!

Any idea why the EZ-VGA adapter works with my Amiga 500 and not either of the 2 A2000's?

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Re: Amiga 2000 hardware questions
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2007, 09:37:05 PM »
I turned it forever LOL...
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Re: Amiga 2000 hardware questions
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2007, 10:40:52 PM »
Ok, I'm having more success with the Amiga 500.

I was able to find the right HD, hook it up to the Data Flyer and bingo, everything works!

I'm listening to some tunes my brother and I made on MED player 13 years ago, lol!

How can I get this HD backed up?

I can only hook up one on the Data Flyer...

If I load WINUAE or something on one of my PC's, will I be able to copy the entire HD and have the backup a bootable one as well?

Now I need to go find a couple old save from Dune II and that will make my day!

If I sound like a kid at Christmas, I am!

Anyone know a good way to get these MIDI sound tracks from my Amiga 500 to a PC?  I'd love to make an Audio CD of these for my brother...

I'll play with the A2000 another day...

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