[torontocbm] Re: Amiga 2000 assistance.
- From: echorny <chorny@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <Luis.Garay@xxxxxx>, <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:26:41 -0500
> From: "Garay, Luis" <Luis.Garay@xxxxxx>
> Reply-To: Luis.Garay@xxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:21:29 -0500
> To: <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [torontocbm] Amiga 2000 assistance.
>
> Hello all, I need some help with my Amiga 2000's. I have 2 machines,
> both of them have a hard drive along with memory installed on the
> controller card. One of the machines is not very stable, I suspect the
> battery leak might be at fault. I want to remove the hard drive
> controller from this one and install it in the other machine which is
> mint.
>
>
> Questions
>
> 1) is it ok to run 2 hard drive controller cards each with it's memory
> in one Amiga?
problem I see here is that normally a controller is set as SCSI ID 7 and
since the system doesn't like two devices having the same ID one of the
controllers would have to be changed to another number - don't have my GVP
manual handy but it should say which jumper to change (if it can be done).
> 2) Workbench version on the healthy amiga is 38.35, kickstart is
> 37.175. from a workbench perspective what do I do in order for it to
> see the new drive and additional memory?
I don't think you have to do anything but above. I believe the system will
allocate a new drive name or modify an existing one (you can't have two
drives called hd0:) but the 'screen' names (that's not the correct
terminology) will remain the same ( you could have two drives each named
'Amiga Drive'). You could rename one of them without a problem.
> 3) I want to upgrade both the rom and o/s on this 2000 and on a 500 I
> have, where can I source these from?
I guess you want to go to at least OS3.1 and possibly OS 3.9. I think Burt
Bochenek has offered a package but remember for OS3.9 you need at least a
68020 processor which means a Commodore A2620 or A2630 accelerator card or a
3rd party one.
>
>
> Any help will be much appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Luis
My recommendation would be to keep the GVP card (seems the 3rd party stuff
was always just a little bit better than the Commodore offering) because you
can cheaply expand to 8 megs using 1 meg 30 pin SIMMS.
As far as the drives -just buy a 4 gig drive on eBay for $20 (mind you get a
50 pin connection) and mount in on the GVP card.
Ernie Chorny
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