Nice looking A3000 on Ebay Australia

[adz]

See here...

I asked the seller about battery leakage and he said that he had removed the battery from day one of operation, funny, I always thought the A3000 needed a battery in order to store SCSI controller information. Additionally, I would like to know how he managed to fit 2 FDD's and 2 HDD's into it, as I doubt I could do that with my A3000. Anyway, its a nice looking A3000 nontheless.

[Darklight]

Yeah, I just saw that one just a while ago, it looks great.  Still got the original packaging and all.  It's probably a little pricey without any boxed software or anything with it, considering there's an A4000 with a 15 in Sony Multisync, and a bunch of other hardware including a CD burner going for $275 in 23 hours.
Definately a nice looking machine though  :-)

[adz]

Yeah, I saw that A4000, not a bad setup, postage would be a killer to Melbourne though, then there's the possibility it might not make it intact.

[Darrin]

adz wrote:
Additionally, I would like to know how he managed to fit 2 FDD's and 2 HDD's into it, as I doubt I could do that with my A3000. Anyway, its a nice looking A3000 nontheless.

That's not a problem.  I installed a Buddha IDE controller into my A3000 a couple of weeks ago.  I have 2 floppy drives installed in the front bays and a single IDE hard drive installed in a cradle below and behind the floppy drives in the correct position.  There is lots of space remaining to add a second hard drive either ontop of the floppy drives or ontop of the cradled hard drive (just use tie-wraps, double sided tape, etc).  If I could only get the Buddha CD software to install then I'd be tempted to cut a hole in the front casing above the floppy drives and install a laptop CD ROM Drive there.  As it is, I've had to leave the cover off and just rest a regular 5.25" CD Drive ontop of the floppies.

The problem I'm having with the software is that the install program keeps reporting taht there is insufficient space on my hard drive to install the software.  I have a large HD partitioned and formatted to a single 3GB partition which is almost empty, but I think the install program is reading the drive geomentry and because it is greater that 4GB then it is reporting a negative capacity and halting the install.  In the end, I had to install Siamese v2.5 on it and link the A3000 to my PC and install OS3.5 on the A3000 using the CD on my PC across the null-modem cable.

Does anybody know what I can do to force this ****ing install program to work?  My only other though is to use a small 2GB drive instead, install to that and then copy the whole 2GB drive over to the larger drive...

[Darklight]

I didn't realise that A4000 was in Sydney until you just said that.  Unfortunately, I won't be bidding; I just bought an A2000 which cleaned me out of 'Amiga money' for now :lol:
If you were interested in buying it, you could always ask for the seller to have it couriered down, it would be safer than post, and shouldn't cost more than $30, I'd say.  I'd be able to help with transfer, but I'm not coming down to Melbourne any time soon, too much rain for my liking :lol:

[adz]

Darklight wrote:
I didn't realise that A4000 was in Sydney until you just said that.  Unfortanately, I won't be bidding; I just bought an A2000 which cleaned me out of 'Amiga money' for now :lol:
If you were interested in buying it, you could always ask for the seller to have it couriered down, it would be safer than post, and shouldn't cost more than $30, I'd say.  I'd be able to help with transfer, but I'm not coming down to Melbourne any time soon, too much rain for my liking :lol:

Now now, Melbourne isn't that wet, we havn't had rain for two days now ;-) Thanks for the offer, but I too am cleaned out of 'Amiga Money' :-D I would like to get my hands on an A4000 eventually, but that won't be for a while ;-(

[Azryl]

In a standard A3000 desktop case, where the scsi hardrive sits on its cradle there is enough room for 2 half height scsi drives sitting one ontop the other.

Originally the drive cradle should have held a full 1inch high scsi except most a3000's came with a half height quantum 52meg drive.

Az

btw.. its a nice a3000, but not as nice as mine :-)

[adz]

Sorry, I guess I've never paid too much attention to the guts of my A3000. BTW...my A3000 is pretty nice too, just needs more bloody RAM :-(

[Azryl]

full 16meg static column ram here  :-P

Az

[adz]

I actually know someone who might be selling off an A3000 fully loaded with 16MB of fast RAM, its in pretty good shape too, so I might just sell off mine and buy that along with the CV64 he has sitting there, just have to wait and see, wonder how much mine would fetch..

[Azryl]

>checks his wallet<

CV64?
who/what/when/where etc :-)

Az

[adz]

Azryl wrote:
>checks his wallet<

CV64?
who/what/when/where etc :-)

Az

Nah, mate, I ain't letting this one slip by ;-)

[Azryl]

{bleep} :-P

[Darklight]

 :lol:  We need some sort of 'Australians Only' board on here  :lol: This is the most Australians I've seen on here together.  :-D

[adz]

Darklight wrote:
 :lol:  We need some sort of 'Australians Only' board on here  :lol: This is the most Australians I've seen on here together.  :-D

Yeah, the more Aussies the better I say :-D We make the whole place that little bit more colourful :-)

Edit...oooh, sorry, that should be Ohssie not Aussie for our American friends :-P