Dumb question regarding A3KD

[curtis]

4Gb?  Cool!  For some reason I thought it was 2 Gb.

[rkauer]

You still need to keep every partition under 1Gb for 2.x Workbench version's FFS. For 3.0/3.1 you can use partitions up to 2Gb (Amiga DOS problem).

 Anyway, more than 200Mb for the boot partition is nonsense. If for some reason you manage to de-validate it it will take ages to fix itself.

 Since the A3000 have a 030 CPU (or better), install and use SFS in the others.

[curtis]

Here's an update of my progress so far.

Got a 1G hard drive in.  Dropped it in and booted 2.04.  Hard drive perfomed flawlessly and WB 2.04 is now installed and running fine.

Got the A2386SX package in.  Board dropped into place with no problems.  However, am having a problem with the floppy side of the house.

I figured it would be easiest to use the Amiga floppies.  Configured the bridgeboard for that and when booting, the floppy drive is not recognized.  Bypass the bridgeboard cabling and the floppy comes back.

Suggestions?

[rkauer]

In any other case than trying to have an ISA Ethernet board inside the Amiga, sack the bridgeboard out and never shuff it inside the Amiga again.

[curtis]

Interesting idea, but I need a slower DOS machine for another project and desk space is at a premium!

In any other case than trying to have an ISA Ethernet board inside the Amiga, sack the bridgeboard out and never shuff it inside the Amiga again.

[curtis]

Got a DOS floppy running tonight.

Configured a portion of my hard drive for DOS and loaded 5.0 with no problems.

Now to start stuffing the software I need on it and go from there.

Oh yeah, and getting the keyboard and mouse adapters!

[curtis]

Here we go with another question.

I've pulled the motherboard to replace the battery (removed) with a coin type battery and noticed some empty DIP sockets at front right labeled U850D-U857D and fromt left labeled
U267-U274.

What are they?  I've got a full compliment of zip RAM installed, so are the dip sockets for an alternate expansion?  Can I use both?  If so, what size chips?

Thanks,

Curtis

[curtis]

Oh, I almost forgot.

Would I accomplish anything by using an external floppy controller on the Amiga side?

[tone007]

The DIP RAM sockets near the ZIP chips are usable when your ZIP sockets are empty (or partially filled?) to use DIP chips for fastram, if you've got 16mb of ZIP you can't use them.

[curtis]

Got a full rack of zip RAM, so guess those sockets are just extra.

The DIP RAM sockets near the ZIP chips are usable when your ZIP sockets are empty (or partially filled?) to use DIP chips for fastram, if you've got 16mb of ZIP you can't use them.

[Zac67]

The DIP sockets on the left side (U267-274) extend your chip RAM to 2 Megs. You'll need 256Kx4 (e.g. 514256) chips as found on old ISA VGA cards and such.

[curtis]

Hmmm, that may be an expansion I'll need to look into!

The DIP sockets on the left side (U267-274) extend your chip RAM to 2 Megs. You'll need 256Kx4 (e.g. 514256) chips as found on old ISA VGA cards and such.