3 Dec
2005
3 Dec
'05
6:13 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Witchy" <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 7:34 PM
Subject: New Amiga toy
Over at BinaryDinosaurs Towers I was
'slightly' pleased to get sent an
Amiga 4000/040 that's been tricked out with a CyberStorm 3 68060/FastSCSI
II CPU card and CyberVision 64/3D graphics complete with CD and drives.
It's yellowed a lot so I'll be digging through the recent archives on
'curing yellowed plastic' that I foolishly ignored but the main question
is on disk cloning.
Looking at http://www.amiga-hardware.com the Phase 5: Cyberstorm Mk-III has
a 68 pin SCSI connector. The manual is found here:
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/manuals/cyberstormmkiii.lha
Drivers here:
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/drivers/A4000_A3000_Accelerators/Phase5_060In…
For the Video card:
manual:
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/manuals/cv3dmanual.lha
Dont see drivers for it there
It's boot drive is a 2.5gb Fuji that needs percussive maintenance to get
it to run so I'm in a need of cloning it ASAP. I've got a known good 2.1gb
Quantum Fireball that I want to transfer the boot disk contents to, so far
my experiments with linux (aside from dd) haven't worked since the drives
are different sizes.
Any CBM experts got any pointers for me? The current boot drive has lots
of things on I want to keep though upgrading the OS to 3.5 would be nice
since it has more internet flavoured tools.
This brings me to another question - where can I get an ethernet board for
this beastie?
TIA :)
--
adrian/witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UKs biggest home computer collection?
Personally when I get an Amiga I remove the original drive and put it on the
shelf, I then make a list of all the hardware and revisions and download all
the drivers disks. I like rebuilding the system with a newer HD, this way I
can make sure it is running 100% and I have all the files needed to redo it
again from scratch if needed. Before rebuilding I also take the system apart
and clean everything (also look for leaking batteries).
The 060 chips sound interesting. Since I mainly play games with mine I stick
to 030 processors. My A1200 has an 030/50 and my A2000 has a 030/40. The
only machine that has a network card is the a1200 since it can use most 16
bit PCMCIA cards that are easy to get.
What plans do you have for that machine?