nubie Question on installing the A2090 card

[quarkx]

Ok, I really wanted to put this on my A2000 thread, but its a software question.
Last night, I connected my XP box to the Amiga 2000 and got Amiga Explore up and running ok. I transfered over a bunch of files including system info and it does see my A2090 card, but it is not installed. I went up and downloaded the install file from Amiga.resource.cx both files and transfered them over to the Amiga, and the Amiga can't see both of these files. Am I missing something? Does anyone have the original disks or files they can e-mail me or put up somewhere?
-Thanks in advance.

[quarkx]

Ok, so I have found an Install for the A2090, and it has been sitting at the prompt "Installing Driver" for over an hour. The hard drive light is on and every 10 min or so it starts to blink for a few minutes than goes solid again.
I know it has 2 -20 meg drives attached and it may be formating them, but the screen says nothing. I know these machines or slow, so I don't want to re-boot and try again, especially if the hard drive light is solid.
Any suggestions?

[quarkx]

So, after 2 hours, I pulled the plug and rebooted the Amiga.
Looks like I pooched the Workbench disk, as now it boots to the AmiDos screen, and sits there while the hard drive light is on and thats it. It is a good thing I have about 6 copies of the workbench 1.3 disk.I will look at it again tomorrow night.

[quarkx]

melott wrote:
As a suggestion ..... get rid of that A2090 card.
You can pick up a A2091 card from EBay for just a
few bucks (they're cheep) and be much farther ahead.
The A2091 card is much easier to work with, and you
can use just about any (Less than 4 gigs)50 pin SCSI
drive.

Mel

I have been looking, but I haven't seen any (on Ebay.ca) remember that MOST Americans on Ebay.com refuse to ship to Canada, so looking for anything on Ebay.com is useless. Ebay.ca will show the American Auctions (or any Auctions worldwide) that will ship to Canada.
Beside, I have this card NOW, with 2 drives full of "unknown" stuff. The challenge is to get it running. If you want to send me a better one for free, PM me and I will gladly pay for postage. :-D

BTW, anyone know of a good "Step by Step" guild or web page to make a custom workbench disk for a complete beginner, and will take us through everything and explain what everything is on the disk and such. Copping the disk is one thing, but understand the boot sequence is another.

[quarkx]

Fantastic  :bow: PM sent s we can meet, and I Must remember to make a few back ups of that disk. :banana:

[quarkx]

Ok, kind of a quickie update. Got the right boot disk, but it still "Hangs up" at the AmigaDOS screen, so I think the hard drive or boot sector of the drive 0 has been lost.
I have been hunting for tutorials on understanding the boot processes and how to make a custom boot disk, but all I can find is info for workbench 3 and above.
So, I ordered a 3.1 ROM from flebay and I am waiting for that to come in and try to start from scratch. I am trying to find a better Scsi card (possibly a combo card) for cheap, but so far no luck- everyone seems to want a first born child for any useful combo card, no mater what the specs are.
I will update after the ROM comes in and I have played with it more then, until then, I have to just play with it without the Hard drive, and treat it like a A500 :roll:

[quarkx]

thank you,
I will print out and go over this tonight or tomorrow.

[quarkx]

Ok, so I have decided to ditch the A2090 card and I ordered a Buddha flash and OS 3.1 from AmigaKit.com and got them in yesterday (Thanks for the super fast transaction Amigakit).

Before I go a head and tear everything apart, a few quick questions.
I would imagine the correct way to install this in the A2000 is the "plug" end facing the front of the case with the front of the card facing the CPU- Am I right?

Second:

If I wish to install 3.1, the correct steps would be to install the card, boot the workbench disk, install the budda, format the drive, install the card, Reboot. run the "install" disk on OS 3.1 the re-install the buddha or will I have to go through it all again?

I am installing a seagate 5 gig drive and a 32x cd rom with it.

Thanks again in advance. :-?

[quarkx]

ok, so I tore everything down and installed a Aopen 32x cd rom and a Quantum Fireball le 5 gig drive.

Here it is mounted up in the sled.


While I had everything apart, I decided to solder on the coin battery holder i ordered from AmigaKit, So this final picture is the Motherboard back in and the Buddha flash installed (hopefully the right way).

Hopefully, that is the correct orientation of the card, I have not put it back further or fired it up yet
I tried to hunt down a manual of the Buddha online, but I cant find it anywhere. The website the instruction sheet says to go to www.ami.ga but that seems to be DOA. I was reading other threads, and people were asking why get a "Phoenix" edition card. That is because that is what Amigakit sells, and they probably made 100x more of these cards then the actual Phoenix motherboard.

[quarkx]

Thanks for the info,
I did look at that site, but even though they say they have the PDF, I haven't found it yet. :-?