16 Jul
2001
16 Jul
'01
5:44 p.m.
For Iggy or whoever else might know...
Ok, after about 4 years, I now have another Amiga 3000.
Cool! The only thing is, after I've popped a set of 3.1 ROMs into
it, gotten new from Sotware Hut, it's having SCSI problems. It's
giving data errors from the internal drive. I vaguely remember
having the same problem with my other 3000 but do not remember the
fix. Other than the ROMs, nothing else was changed. I plan on
putting the 2.0 ROMs back in just to recheck everything. Anyone?
The first thought that comes to mind are you running with the newest
revision of the SCSI chip? I've got two A3000's, one is near pristine,
sitting in the box as a spare (got it from a guy locally who had taken
beautiful care of it and a A2000. The other is a *major* dog, BUT, I've
upgraded all the chips to the latest Rev, added a DIP to SIMM board with
16MB RAM, added a Picasso IV video board, 10Base2 Ethernet, and a Catweasel.
The only thing it needs is an accelerator and a way to add more RAM :^)
Downside being I've not used it in 2-3 years.
However, I've had major problems with the internal HD getting corrupted. In
my case thank goodness for having had a Exabyte 8500 hooked up to it. This
was with 3.1 ROMS and OS. I've never run any other version on it except for
the few days it took to get 3.1 from Softhut.
BTW, what version of the OS are you running? I've been wanting to get the
system back out of storage and buy a copy of Amiga OS V3.9 and try that out.
Zane