Another Amiga question

From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Mon Jul 16 18:13:50 2001

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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