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IDE Controller for A2000
« on: September 05, 2006, 01:35:39 AM »
Greetings:

As I contemplate the purchase of my A2000, I am planning to do with it (on a limited basis) what I was going to do with my A4000 that I was building.  Now I have decided I will seek a fully working A4000 and keep my parts for spares :-)

My A2000 will likely come with a floppy drive and a SCSI drive as well.  I assume I will need to upgrade its KS to v 3.1 but won't actually be buying the ROMS until I see what I am getting.  This is a local guy in my local Amiga User Group and I bought my 1084 Monitor from him and the picture is great, but the sound is broken... no big deal to me though since I only really use the monitor for the service side of my hobby :-)

Anyhow, I need to be able to run regular IDE drives and wondered what adapter would be needed to acomplish this?

I also would run the CDROM from this adapter and so it must be able to be booted.

Also, I have read that my Video Toaster 4000 will work in my A-2000 except for the AGA parts (understandable).   But I have spent the last 4-5 months seeking an A4000 system and have yet to find one I could buy right now, so this will have to do :-)

Also, if you have an IDE controller that will work in an A2000 and would be willing to sell it, please PM with what you would need in USD and we'll talk further.

EDIT:  Anybody used the Buddha as offered at Amigakit here.

Happy computing,

Mike

BTW:  I will miss my AGA chipset, and I hope my games didn't have to have it :-P

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Re: IDE Controller for A2000
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2006, 04:58:17 AM »
After I read thru your ideas, I had to comment.
The A4000 Toaster does not just plug into the A2000. The video slot on the A2000 is to the right of the PSU. It would require cabling, and separating the Toaster cards. This should not be taken lightly.
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Re: IDE Controller for A2000
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2006, 02:28:58 PM »
@amiga4k

Yeah, I would have dearly liked to put it in an A4000, but seeing as how I am having such issue finding parts or let alone buying a fully working A4000, I am left with either not using my toaster, finding a Toaster specifically for A2000 or continuing to wait to find the A4000.  Since I have been looking for a working 4000 since July of last year and still have come up with nothing more than a handful of parts, I have decided that A4000's are too expensive for my pocketbook at this time... so my decision is to work with the A2000 I have agreed to buy.

Really, I wanted 3 4000's to do my various projects, but the A2000 will work out nicely for one of them!

That means I still have to find 2 full working A4000's.

The last prices I saw were more than a decent brand new PC by at least 2X, and while I know that these are the going prices for them, I can not pay that, so I must wait until I have enough spare parts to build one or find a heck of a deal for a couple of them.

But, I have already been waiting for over a year for the first one and just can't wait forever, so if the toaster I have can not be utilized, it will probably find its way into a trade or sold for other parts I would like.  Or simply stored until the day I can obtain my 4k's :-)

I do appreciate your answer to my post, I have not yet looked at what the inside of the 2k is like.  I have more experience with the 1200's and the 4000's.

The funny thing is:  When I first saw a brand new Amiga on the showroom floor (circa 1992) I believe it was a 2500 model.  That impressed me then, point of fact:  I actually was trying to save the money to buy it and Commodore folded before I could do it... hence I got a PC (first one being a Tandy 1000 TX (my bad)).  My uncle had a Color Computer 3 (Radio Shack/Tandy also) and I thought it was cool.  Back then, BBS was the online experience!

Anyhow, 1995 I was with Macintosh (bought a 7500) coming full circle -- began life on an Apple IIe.  I have been professionally working with Windows since 1991 (actually same with Mac) but choose Macintosh currently.  If Amiga OS would come to pass, I would probably choose it because I always tend to vote for the underdog.  Plus it is nice to come home and use a totally different computer than the one that gives you the headache all day at the office (normally this would be some Windows box).

Anyhow, I will end my novel at this point.

Thanks for the advice and I still have some hope that someone will offer at least one full working 4000 to me soon.

Ebay is not and will never be again an option for me (FYI).
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Re: IDE Controller for A2000
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2006, 02:54:52 AM »
I do have an A4000 with Toaster for sale, but, as you said, probably out of your $$ range.

A4000 desktop, converted to Power Tower includes:
NEW A4000 motherboard, 2 chip, 16 fast ram, new battery.
Spitfire SCSI card #1: Seagate 4.3 GIG, Yahama 4x4x16 CD-RW, NEC CDR 32x SCSI
Spitfire SCSI card #2: 1 gig 68pin with 68 to 50 pin adapter.

ATA-EIDE card: (2) WD 9.3 gig
A3640 ver 3.2 68040 x 30
Amiga ROMS 3.1 with Buster 11
Amiga DOS 3.5 cd
Sync Strainer module
DKB3128 with 128 megs RAM
EGS Spectrum Graphics Card
1084S and Mitsubishi Diamond Scan 17HX monitors included.

A4000 Toaster with new 4.3 Toaster software.
(Toaster was tested with original drive)
The 4.3 software is not-installed.
Full written ownership transfer will be conveyed for 4.3

Notice: original EIDE drives will be included, with original configuration.
Amiga DOS on the 1 gig drive. All other partitions are removed or un-configured.
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