Classic Amigas - Still Useful?

[nicholas]

As to the mention of something about having a real machine to do this on rather than an emulator... yeah, I feel the same way.  I guess it all just comes down to time availability... ever since I got the "real" job and had kids, all the tinkering and game playing seemed to go to the wayside...

I only ever use UAE to prep hard drives and get everything I need installed before putting them into real miggies.

[nicholas]

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.

This is the easiest solution.

http://www.acard.com/english/fb01-product.jsp?idno_no=324&prod_no=AEC-7732U&type1_idno=6&ino=43