Macintosh hardware in Amiga?

[jnordness]

I recently aquired an A2000 with 2500 specs (2091 scsi card, HD, 020 board, thanks doomy!) but it didn't have a CDROM. I assume that just about any old 50pin scsi drive would work, is that correct? The only problem is, I am running WB1.3 and it seems rather... limited. Either that, or I just don't know what I am doing. Probably the latter. Today I cannibalized 3 Macs and scored [BRAG] 2 scsi cdroms, one being older with a caddy, two scsi hard drives, one 4.5gig but don't know about the other, 2 68040 processors at 25mhz and 33mhz (not EC either!), and a 350mhz PPC daughtercard. Not too bad for $5, huh? [/BRAG] Will any of these cdroms work for sure, and can I get them to work in WB1.3, and will that 4.5gig be too much for the 2091 card? Thanks, and sorry for the long, rambling post.

Joel

[carls]

The SCSI CD-ROMs would probably work, although I don't think you'll have much use for them in OS 1.3. Although there has to be some kind of CD-ROM drivers for 1.3 available somewhere considering the CDTV and the A570, you'd be better off with OS 3.1. Not just because of CD-ROM support but it will improve the overall functionality of your Amiga.

OS 3.1 can be bought as ROM-chips and disks from www.amigakit.com or, if you're lucky, on eBay or similar sites. Failing that, you can buy Amiga Forever (www.amigaforever.com) and use a program to load the kickstart 3.1 image to RAM, faking a 3.1 ROM.

[Matt_H]

BabelCDFS will get your CD drives working under 1.3. Hard drive compatibility depends on what revision ROMs the 2091 car has. I think rev. 7 is what you want.

[jnordness]

Great, thanks for the info. How can I tell if I have the rev. 7 roms, and if I don't, how can they be aquired? Can 3.1 read ms-dos formatted disks? I am also not sure how to get stuff from aminet onto my miggy. Thanks again for the help; you guys are awesome.

Joel

[Matt_H]

There should be a sticker or printing on the ROMs that says what version they are.

And ah, the old issue of getting files to an Amiga. OS2.1 and above has CrossDOS built in. Just mount PC0: and you can use 720K formatted PC disks in the floppy drive. For 1.3, I think fat95 will work, but you still need to get it to the Amiga in the first place...

[jnordness]

Yeah, a newer version of WB is definately on the agenda. I definately don't have the rev. 7 chips on my 2091, so I need to find out how to get a hold of them. Also, how does one format a hard drive in 1.3? I tried formatting one of the Mac HD's, but the drive didn't come up in WB.

Joel

[InTheSand]

Matt_H wrote:
For 1.3, I think fat95 will work, but you still need to get it to the Amiga in the first place...

I had no luck with FAT95 on 1.3 - kept crashing... But MultiDOS works fine!

Again, you still need to be able to get it to the Amiga in the first place!

It's easy enough to create a Workbench 1.3 bootable disk with MultiDOS installed. Perhaps someone nearby (or at least in the same country!) can help.

 - Ali