Amiga 3000 ?'s

[THEWASP]

I got my Amiga 3000 today in the mail. Been wanting a 3000 for the last 10+ years. Never could afford one back in the day. I am an old Amiga guy who has forgot most of the stuff. Playing around tonight with it. Much faster then my old 500.

2 questions up front and probably more later.....

#1
What kind of virus protection is out there now and is there still a problem with virus's? I will be getting a network card soon and get the 3000 on the internet. It has the 2.1 WB.

#2
It has a SCSI connection on the back of the Amiga.  

My old 500 had the Xetec Fastrack scsi controller that hooked to an old XT case filled with my scsi HD's. Can I just hook that old case into this SCSI port on the back of the 3000 and access my old harddrives from way back?! Dont want to hose anything by plugging stuff in that I shouldnt have plugged in .

Man I am rusty! Wonder where my old USR HST Dual Standard modem is!
 :-P


THEWASP

[Jiffy]

THEWASP wrote:
#2
It has a SCSI connection on the back of the Amiga.  

My old 500 had the Xetec Fastrack scsi controller that hooked to an old XT case filled with my scsi HD's. Can I just hook that old case into this SCSI port on the back of the 3000 and access my old harddrives from way back?! Dont want to hose anything by plugging stuff in that I shouldnt have plugged in .

If the harddisks are still functional, it would work without a problem. The one thing you should be aware of, though, is that it is possible you have to reformat the harddisks: not all SCSI-controllers like it if you connect a harddisk which has been formatted on another Amiga-controller.

And, ofcourse, check the SCSI-id numbers. If your A3000 has an internal harddisk, there is a chance the SCSI-id numbers of your internal harddisk is the same as one of your exteranl harddisks. Which will not work very well...

[Brian]

The Virus problem is not as much as it once was but there's still viruses out there from the old days and there are a few new ones once in a while. I'd recomend VirusZ, it's still uppdated now and again and can be downloaded for free from AmiNet. :-D

[Amiga4k]

You would do better to install the SCSI drive inside the A3000 (if it's 3.5" drive and 1/2 height.)
(1) You'll need the Xetec install for an Amiga to use that controller. I have it on .DMS
(2) Do you have 2.1 AmigaDOS disks? If not, I do.

[weirdami]

@Amiga4k

Would you post that Xetec install .dms somewhere, or maybe it's on aminet? I have some sort of xetec controller box for A1000 and I'd like to see if I could get it to work.

@THEWASP
Check the battery for evil leakage.

[THEWASP]

Well the 3000 seems to be working fine. I have never used WB2.1 so its new to me!

I can not seem to get my old SCSI HD's to even be recognized on the 3000. I cannot find a SCSI program on the 3000 to add SCSI drives. The old Xetec controller I had on my 500 had a SCSI tools program that helped you to install SCSI HD's.  So the big NEWBIE question tonight is.......


How the heck do you install SCSI HD's on a 3000!!!  

I ran a BBS on my old 500 and have 5 drives worth of file areas I would like to get on-line and accessible via the 3000. Was hoping the SCSI HD's would come up or let me select them in the SCSI Tool program on the 3000 but I cant find ANYTHING ANYWHERE that talks about Harddrives!  I know all about the SCSI Id's and have figured the 3000's controller is 7 and the drive in it is 6.

Someone point me in the right direction?!?!



THEWASP

[THEWASP]

I dont have any WB 2.1 disks either. No books or anything. Just the 3000,keyboard and mouse.



THEWASP

[THEWASP]

Well I found HDToolbox  and I think thats what I would want to use for setting up a new drive. Dont want to format the old ones as they have valuable information on them. I may have to dig the 500 out and parnet over to the 3000.


THEWASP

[Amiga4k]

Sent you email.

[voytech]

Dunno much bout SCSI drivers, but you might need a tool (for me it was very usefull called SCSIMounter - I used it to add disks (they were IDE disks) formatted on other Amigas, that didn't show up in WB, after I plugged in such a disk in my miggy and booted

[SyrTran]

HDToolbox should recognize the drive even if AmigaDOS doesn't understand the format.

A3000's were shipped with internal termination of the external port.  You might still have this set.  There is (are?) one or two single-inline resistor pack(s) "RPxx" right next to the SCSI controller chip towards the rear ports.  These should be removed if you intend to use external devices.