Bought an A2000HD

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Is Amigakit the source for this type thing??

ROFL.  

No, Google.    All kinds of SCSI-to-SD and IDE-to-SD adapters out there.  Where you start obviously depends on what kind of interface your Amiga has now.

[Tenacious]

As always, nice pics Mike.

I like the blue LEDs behind front air vents.  A touch of modern without going over the top.  

Did Mech tire of making SCSI card readers, or, did the raw materials dry up?  I'd like about 3 more of them.

@ Vlabguy  

Another option for file transfer is a Zip drive.  They are available (cheaply) as SCSI, USB, IDE, and Parallel interfaces.  The PC format can be read on most platforms (PC and Amiga, Mac, Linux, etc).

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

As always, nice pics Mike.

I like the blue LEDs behind front air vents.  A touch of modern without going over the top.  

Did Mech tire of making SCSI card readers, or, did the raw materials dry up?  I'd like about 3 more of them.

ty

Mech bought them somewhere.  If you search the forums he posted the whole story, I think because I bugged him about it enough.  

He bought them all somewhere, thousands of them, had to track them to a warehouse through some obscure government surplus tracking code.  He updated the firmware and whatnot, and eventually sold them all, more to people using old synthesizers than to Amiga users, unfortunately.  But that's why they still pop up on ebay pretty frequently - the synth crowd.  You should be able to find his whole story somewhere here.  

[tonyvdb]

Love this forum, I've never seen a site that takes a topic so far off of where it started LOL
The USB input looks interesting in place of one of the CHINON drives.

Will any 50 pin SCSI CD rom drive work with the included SCSI controller?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Will any 50 pin SCSI CD rom drive work with the included SCSI controller?

Yes, they should.  I've almost never had bad luck with SCSI CD drives, just feels like they're "built better" than IDE.  Or for another option, this is the drive that I use with my A500:

IBM LF-D291BK 4.7GB 5.25 in. SCSI-50 Pin DVD-RAM 04N5967

Paid $34 for mine on ebay a while back, brand new.  Looks like they're going for even cheaper, now.  Although a white one or beige would probably look better in an A2000.  

Edit: check your ROM version.  v7.0's are available pretty cheap and resolve a bunch of problems older ones had.  There's also v8.0 ROM's, but I think that's some homebrew hack, I don't know all the details on those offhand.  

[tonyvdb]

Oh ya, love SCSI. The video toasters SCSI drives in my 4000 are still working.

[Vlabguy1]

A network?  Floppy disks?  j/k.  Maybe one of these?



Really it depends.  You looking for internal, external, CF, SD, etc.  Lots of options.  

Hey Mike is this a plug n play type thing??

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Hey Mike is this a plug n play type thing??

You're killing me man, you've never seen one of those before?  That's just a generic picture of one I found online, although I do have a couple kicking around in a drawer for my various Miggy's.  Lots of people use them on A4000's, etc.  Typically you'd plug it into the 40-pin IDE header on the motherboard, configure the jumpers (usually not much more complicated than Master/Slave), run power to it, stick in a CF card, and boot/prep/format it for Workbench.  These kind aren't hot-swappable though (which is a difference between the extra LUN's in the Mechware device), because, well... think of it as replacing the hard disk in your A4000.  You wouldn't unplug that when it's powered up, would you?  

Anyhow, blah blah, the rest should be self-explanatory.  Time to go get some coffee!  

Edit: it's the same concept as this.  I couldn't find a decent pic of an A4000 in my 30-seconds of Googling, but here's a pic of similar concept in an A1200:

[Vlabguy1]

You're killing me man, you've never seen one of those before?  That's just a generic picture of one I found online, although I do have a couple kicking around in a drawer for my various Miggy's.  Lots of people use them on A4000's, etc.  Typically you'd plug it into the 40-pin IDE header on the motherboard, configure the jumpers (usually not much more complicated than Master/Slave), run power to it, stick in a CF card, and boot/prep/format it for Workbench.  These kind aren't hot-swappable though (which is a difference between the extra LUN's in the Mechware device), because, well... think of it as replacing the hard disk in your A4000.  You wouldn't unplug that when it's powered up, would you?  

Anyhow, blah blah, the rest should be self-explanatory.  Time to go get some coffee!  

Edit: it's the same concept as this.  I couldn't find a decent pic of an A4000 in my 30-seconds of Googling, but here's a pic of similar concept in an A1200:

Sorry bout that.. Yes I have seen them before..guess not sure why they are not more popular with the big box Amigas..and would like something hot swappable but not a deal breaker I guess.

Rich

[Niding]

I enjoy the USB I got for my A1200, while I use the Card reader just as much at the moment.

https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop/product/rapidroad-usb.html

Wether or not one of those can be used in a A2000 I dont know.

This is the official thread of the USB developer http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=75396&page=19

[Vlabguy1]

I enjoy the USB I got for my A1200, while I use the Card reader just as much at the moment.

https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop/product/rapidroad-usb.html

Wether or not one of those can be used in a A2000 I dont know.

This is the official thread of the USB developer http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=75396&page=19

Yup..I have seen this.  I was thinking more for my 4000's and 4000T's...but either way a big box Amiga.. I think I would need  X-surf cards ... And that looks pricey..and hard to come by..

Rich