A4000T / WB 3.1 problems

[lostrego]

Well, the only SCSI disk I have (a Quatum 260MB one) sounds like it's going to die real soon. This disk didn't boot up in the first place and after I 'gently' asked him to start working, it now works. If I don't turn on the Amiga for 2 days, I have to re-do this.

Besides that, it makes an awful noise and only has 23MB free (and at this point, I don't want to delete things from there because that still is a working system).

I see, I'd not trust something like that either , even more if it needed some gentle dose of ye olde whack to get it going.:deadhorse

But those Quantums are really hard to kill, I remember an old Quantum 2.5GB SCSI drive that I had that was almost totally dead doing all kind of weird horrid noises, so I opened it to se how its guts were like, the most funny thing is that after that I closed it and said "yes it's gonna work for sure..." so I plugged it back expecting some lulz to happen and guess what happened...

It booted! like new! , well not so, after that it started to loose more and more sectors as time passed (maybe some irrelevant dust impurities on the disk plate had something to do but who cares:ROTFLOL2 .

Perhaps It will be a good future investiment a decent second hand 50pin SCSI hard drive or an SCSI to IDE conversor but well that's up to your choice.

I've now installed AmigaOS 3.9 and all the way up to BoingBag 4. I still can't get the NIC going. I bought this card and using that driver which gives me a yellow error message

So, if anyone has a good idea how to get that thing going, I'll be going

I've no experience with this card but for what I see is a quite old model, sure that drivers work with modern setups, say WB3.9, 060 etc... ?

Good luck

 

[WHiZZi]

That'll be a future investment, for now I'm mostly trying to get the Amiga on the Internet.. because it can

I found these drivers on Aminet and found that the ones originally given on the disk (which is on the amigahardware page) never worked.. here and here. So, I downloaded that and will test it out tonight.

 

[D.B]

If it helps you make a decision later, please do consider replacing the SCSI drive/s @ some point. Your Amiga will perform in a far superior manner than when using IDE devices.

 

[lostrego]

That'll be a future investment, for now I'm mostly trying to get the Amiga on the Internet.. because it can

I found these drivers on Aminet and found that the ones originally given on the disk (which is on the amigahardware page) never worked.. here and here. So, I downloaded that and will test it out tonight.

Yep, not also for internet, an ethernet card is very handy also for filetransfers via your own LAN using either SMB (that is a bit of headache maker to get it going on amiga side) or by simply mounting a FTP server on your linux box and using whatever FTP client on Amiga side will do de job ok.

For me since I've got an ethernet card on my amiga I haven't touched any CD/DVD nor any other removable media for years, I get all done via LAN transfers.

Say that at some point you need a physical CD to be present for any install ? , no probs, just pass the iso image file of it to the amiga and mount it as a virtual cdrom unit (using isomount or whatever else) and then go .