That's it!

[olegil]

Dan wrote:

Nobody said that anyone is abandoning the Amiga...
I'm just ditching my A1200. I'll still hang on to my A600 ( if it still works  ).

well that makes sense, but ggsdata has a1200 mobos for 850SEK if you want one.
Anyway since you aren´t abandoning the Amiga will you buy an AmigaOne???
I mean when OS4 is released of course.

Well, I purchased one of each of these, and am not regretting it :-)

(1 A1200 motherboard from GGS-Data, and 1 A1G3-SE last year).
At the moment I am also considering spending 200EUR on an Access 1200 to put in the A1 tower (neat solution for old software, I think :-) ).

And I played Hybris on the A500 last night :-)

[whabang]

Dan wrote:
well that makes sense, but ggsdata has a1200 mobos for 850SEK if you want one.
Anyway since you aren´t abandoning the Amiga will you buy an AmigaOne???
I mean when OS4 is released of course.

Actually, I sold all of my amiga hardware this morning. A couple of guys came and picked it all up for 500:- ( a little bargain for them :-) ).
The A600 was picked to pieces, and I don't feel like assembling it again.
I also sold the trusty old A500 and every single game I had lying around.
UAE only from now on!

I'll probably going to buy an A1 as soon as my finances look a little better, though... :-D

[z5]

I never understood how anyone can sell his amiga stuff. I couldn't, no way.

[Agafaster]

I have a 20Gig Maxtor in me 1200T (OS3.9 BB2)
which is working fine ATM - aside from having trouble building a new partition around the halfway mark (although I am actually on IDE - IDEfix'97 board from Power.)

Rose - might that have been Freudian ?!  :-P too much time on ANN methinks... :-D

[vortexau]

Wayne opinioned that:

it's 8 year old hardware with a designed shelf-life of 5 to 7 years

Balderdash! The "designed shelf-life" usual with x86 maybe!
Amigas are made of sterner stuff .... Like my 1989 A2000HD where only DF0: has died!

[QuikSanz]

@ xaccrocheur

I think I know whats going on here. DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT use GVP's prep utilities, it's old junk, use HD Tool box for this. I belive thats where your incompatabilities are comming from. Preped and formatted one way and trying to patch in another. I gave up on these utilities long ago. Warning: This is a pain the first time you switch but don't give up, you'll be rewarded for your efforts

Chris

PS. No kidding, a time consuming process. one slip and your starting over. If your getting frustrated let me know I'll help walk you thru it.

[artman]

@whabang

Take a little time away from the Miggy, but don't sell it yet.  Maybe with a little help from people in the community you could figure out what the problem is and fix it?  I like to "tinker" with things, I'm by no means a technician and usually end up doing something that causes a problem, but in most instances, I've been able to get help and fix the prob.  Thats how come my old garage sale A2000 is still ticking.  Help from people willing to help, and a good quality soldering pencil!  Sometimes a good bright flashlight and a magnifying lens helps, found some burned keyboard caps that way, easily overlooked by just eye-balling to mobo.  Keep the faith. :-D

[amigau]

why don't you just simplify your life and get a Buddha card and IDE drive?  far simpler and performance isn't that much less, if you got a really new IDE drive, probably all but equal on an Amiga, actually.

I spent many an hour dealing with SCSI termination issues in my old A3000D before I got rid of it - in my current A2000 I have a DKB wildfire with one drive, and a Buddha with a second.  The also nice thing about the Buddha is then you can put in IDE CD-ROM drives, etc., FAR cheaper than SCSI CD drives.

And since it's an Individual Computers product, the Buddha is completely, utterly reliable, and not 15 years old, either.

good luck!

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

[Kurt]

xaccrocheur

Here is the problem GVP makes CRAP. Mike should be shot for not even following a 15 year plus old C= standard for RDB. You ask him it is everyones fault but his. Idiot!

Okay this is the problem GVP does not read the RDB properly and load the Filesystems that you have installed on your HD. Trick one is a simple one install a IDE drive on your Amiga with the Filesystems installed on the RDB and bingo you can now use PFS or SFS. even on your SCSI drives attached to the GVP controller because now the Amiga can read the filesystem.

or you can make a mountfile entry and call it from your Startup-Sequence problem with that is you have to make you first partition a FFS partition in the lower part of your HD. but it still will work.


hope that helps

Kurt

[QuikSanz]

@ Kurt

I've found GVP stuff to be OK. The utilities are definitly real cxxp. Kill them before they spread. Forget that old software. They work just fine w/HDTools.

Chris

@whabang

hey where did they come from (the purchaser)... from LA? members of SyntaxSociety perhaps?

BTW: why don't you come and visit us and meet Amigans IRL

[whabang]

hey where did they come from (the purchaser)... from LA? members of SyntaxSociety perhaps?

Yep! :-D  :-D  :-D

BTW: why don't you come and visit us and meet Amigans IRL

I might do some day... :-)

@whabang
Great, we will have a "computer party" soon...:-)

[whabang]

Muffin wrote:
@whabang
Great, we will have a "computer party" soon...:-)

Cool! Mail me when it's time.

@whabang

Ok i will :-)

[bhoggett]

vortexau wrote:
Wayne opinioned that:

it's 8 year old hardware with a designed shelf-life of 5 to 7 years

Balderdash! The "designed shelf-life" usual with x86 maybe!
Amigas are made of sterner stuff .... Like my 1989 A2000HD where only DF0: has died!

Which proves nothing really. Sure, there are plenty of old Amigas out there that are working fine, but equally there's a whole bunch of them that have long since failed. It's not just the basic systems, but all the additional cards etc one gets to rely on in their Amiga. These are failing at an increased rate, and replacing them is simply not financially viable for most people.

Generally speaking Wayne is right. As for the build quality of Amigas, this tends to vary quite a bit from model to model, and even between revisions. Some are very sturdy, and some are complete pieces of #@$%.