Another Amiga question

The problem was termination. I opened it up again today and sure enough, the previous owner had removed the terminating resistor packs from the mainboard. It worked fine like this under the 2.X ROMs but once the 3.1 ROMs went in it began having problems. Once I hooked up an external hard disk, properly terminated of course, I was able to get the machine stable enough to back up the contents and reformat the internal drive. I then booted from a Workbench disk and restored everything back to the internal drive. Now, even with the external drive removed and a DB25 terminator (from a HP Scanjet IIc) in place, the problems seem to have gone away. As I previously found out with my last A3000, it was important to back up and reformat the drive once it began having all the errors as they didn't go away until then even after fixing their cause. Jeff -- Collector of Classic Microcomputers and Video Game Systems: Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757