Amiga 3000 Hard Disk Setup

[matt3k]

You need to get the lastest SCSI.device on your system.  Install BB4 and you will be all set.  Or you could track down the latest device and patch it.

BB4 with the newer HD tools will be your best experience.  Would recommend that you use PFS from aminet.  Be sure to set the masks and max transfers correctly.  All the partitions should be the same mask and max transfers.

One Last detail, if you own the WDC 04 SCSI chip, it is known to be buggy.  Replace it with th 08 version or the AMD equivalent.  They are widely available and cheap.

[matt3k]

I am currently running WB2.04 and planning to install WB3.1.  My system is using SoftKickstart 40.55.

Will BB4 support this?

Interesting idea.  I think since your softkicked 3.1, it should work.  I never tried it but it should work...

Let me know...

[matt3k]

I will try to install PFS3 from Aminet later today/tomorrow.  I'm fairly certain you don't need to create a CD. You may need to update you installer.

If you use PFS3 you will not not need 3.x and the latest BBs, PFS3 get's around the 4 gig limits just fine without the new scsi.device.

I would at some point look at the SCSI chip to see if it a 04 or 08.  The WDC 04 are know to be problematic and I would bet with a newer drive you will want to get the latest version.

The last item is that you have an older rev 3000 and I assume you have the rom tower, I would make sure that if you order 3.1 roms where they should be mounted.  I have never seen a 3k with a rom tower so I don't have first hand experience there.