16 Jul
2001
16 Jul
'01
10:44 a.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
16 Jul
16 Jul
11:13 a.m.
Zane,
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,
I was lucky in that it already had the Rev 8 WD chip
installed. Unfortunately, that's the only chip that had been
updated. I'm thinking that maybe the ROMs changed the SCSI timing
and that I'd try removing the terminator packs off of the mainboard
and see what happens. I wish I could remember how I fixed this when
I got my original 3000 in '94.
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.
I powered this one up with the original 2.0 ROMS and WB 2.1
installed and everything worked great. The video slot had been
hacked a little to mount a Video Toaster in it but everything
appeared to work ok. It was only after changing the ROMs that it
started acting up.
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.
I've got the 3.9 CD sitting there ready to install once I get
the SCSI voodoo figured out. I'm going to back up the software on
the internal drive and do a clean install though. The funny thing
is, I had preordered OS 3.5 from Software Hut a couple of years ago
when it was announced but had canceled it when I sold my A4000. Now
I've got this A3000 and ordered the OS 3.9 from them. It's nice to
still have one of the old-line Amiga dealers still around. It
would've been interesting to see what got sold off when Paxtron went
under. I've always wished that I had bought one of the C-65
mainboards when they had them for sale a few years back.
Jeff
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Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File
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12:37 p.m.
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.
Forgot to mention that the A3000 actually has both OS 2.1 and
Linux 68k installed. There's an option in it's dock to boot into
Linux, which causes the A3000 to reboot. It halts partway through
the boot process though with a console error. This before I swapped
ROMs.
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
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