« Yet Another Amiga Update
Goodbye, tree. »

Sunday Night Amiga Update

Decided to fiddle with the Amiga a bit and see if the GVP ‘030 board works. Once I dug up the correct jumper settings for the 3001, it managed to boot to the “please give me a Workbench Disk” screen.

The floppy drive is bad, so I “temporarily borrowed” the floppy drive tray from the second A2000:

A2000 Test

Using it and a Workbench 2.04 floppy, I managed to get a basic floppy-based system up and running:

A2000 with GVP 030/4M board

Once that was successful, I installed the other cards - an Amiga 2091 SCSI controller/RAM expansion, and a SupraRAM expansion. So far, they appear to work together and give me a total of 1M “Chip” RAM, and eight megabytes of “Fast” RAM:

A2000 with GVP 030/4M, A2091, SupraRAM board

Now I just need to find a couple 50-pin SCSI ribbon cables and a small (4G or less) SCSI hard drive…

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 20th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Categories: Amiga, computers, hobbies, projects. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to 'Sunday Night Amiga Update'

  1. rbarclay Says:
    May 21st, 2007 at 1:21 am

    If you can’t find something local (and are willing to pay shipping from .at), I have a couple spare 1-4 GB SCSI-2 disks.

    cheers,
    &rw

  2. Tony Says:
    May 22nd, 2007 at 10:01 am

    I think I may have a drive to meet your needs in the leftovers of that pile of drives I got from you a couple years ago. I’ll check the pile tonite.

  3. Tony Says:
    May 23rd, 2007 at 11:07 am

    Got 2 4GB 50-Pin drives sitting here that are all yours if you want them. If I get them dropped off in the mail tomorrow you’d probably have them Saturday at the latest.