At 10:05 PM -0600 12/2/05, Jim Leonard wrote: Actually on an A1200 or an A4000 it could be IDE, however, based on how souped up that A4000 sounds to be, I'm guessing it's using the FW SCSI on the Cyberstorm accelerator. Zane -- -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

On Sat, December 3, 2005 4:05 am, Jim Leonard said: IDE in this case, but your question still stands :) -- adrian/witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UKs biggest home computer collection?

Witchy wrote: But for a sane system you *should* be able to take the dd image and put it back on a larger capacity drive in the Amiga, and everything should just work. Possible exceptions: 1) Any hardware that supports some kind of "put this x blocks from the *end* of the disk" is obviously going to fail, because the end of the disk won't be where it used to be. I don't know of anything nuts enough to actually do this :) 2) If partition table settings are specified in terms of cyls/heads/sectors, rather than block lengths / offsets from the start of the drive, you're likely going to have problems. No idea how Amiga disk ystems work, so I don't know if it's an issue or not. Presumably the partition table / filesystem format is well-documented though, so even if (2) is a problem, you could chop a raw dd archive of the failing disk up into chunks of partition data, and write those out along with an appropriate revised partition table to the 'new' disk. Ahh, no spare drives here then. Generally, I don't 'do' IDE. Took me well over a year to find a replacement IDE disk for my RiscPC (that was around 2.5GB too) cheers J.

On 12/3/2005 at 4:20 PM Witchy wrote: Mask the important parts (logo, etc.) and paint it. That's the only way I know of to get folks to wondering where the yellow went. Actually, many plastic cases are painted today. --Chuck

On Sat, December 3, 2005 4:05 am, Jim Leonard said: Bugger. I'd have thought at least the Germans would have made a ZORRO Ethernet board up until the late 90s. I found a website that mentioned at least 5 different boards, 2 of which followed the CBM naming convention though I guess it's the getting hold of one is what's going to prove difficult. At present the machine's running OS3.0 but I've got a 3.5 CD that I'm going to install on another drive. Cheers -- adrian/witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UKs biggest home computer collection?

On Sat, December 3, 2005 6:13 am, Teo Zenios said: Yep, that's the site that told me what the 2 cards were so I downloaded everything in sight. Tonight's task is to see which drive is the boot drive and have a go at installing OS 3.5 which should be interesting as I've never installed AmigaOS from CD before. Maybe I'll take some OS3 floppies too just in case. No worries on that score, the previous owner removed the battery before he put the machine in storage. I've sort of half-heartedly been looking for a Squirrel SCSI card for my A1200 but I only ever see them on epay and they always go for more than I'm willing to pay. As for network, I've got an old laptop with a 3com PCMCIA card in....could I use that? Play and learn and get it on the web if possible, as well as see what that fat graphics card is capable of..... -- adrian/witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UKs biggest home computer collection?

On 4/12/05 16:45, "Jim Leonard" <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote: It's a fully working machine and comes with all the disks to rebuild as I've just discovered. Manuals too so I'm going to rebuild the system on another drive (it DOES boot off the IDE disk), surprisingly. It's a Rev B board so I'm ok on external clocking :) A/W

At 12:13 AM +0000 12/5/05, Adrian Graham wrote: The drive has Amiga OS 3.5 on it doesn't it? If so, doesn't that system have 3.1 Rom's already (at worst you've got 3.0, but I'd think in any case with a 4000 that the odds are 3.1). Your best bet will be either eBay, or one of the Amiga dealers in the UK. I was going to suggest Eyetech, but just checked their website, and they don't have anything listed (in fact they hardly list anything anymore). In the US, you can buy them from Software Hut http://www.softhut.com a set is about $42US. Zane -- -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

On 5/12/05 02:50, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote: It's OS3.0 with a V39.xx kickstart. I suppose I don't mind shelling out some $$$ on the machine since I got it for the price of postage :) Having said that, the whole reason for installing 3.5 is to get the web stuff and tcp/ip stack but there's little point in that until I get an ethernet board! Cheers a

On Mon, December 5, 2005 2:13 pm, Jules Richardson said: Possibly but getting it on the web is only a future project. The more immediate problem is getting the boot drive copied successfully since I can't reinstall onto a new drive without the original processor in the machine - the Cyberstorm requires you to install the software before the processor board :o\ The original owner is now in Switzerland but he's going to check his stuff when it arrives later in the week. -- adrian/witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UKs biggest home computer collection?