Hi Group,
I am the guy that posted a question about my Amiga 1000 and the fact the floppy drive was not working. I posted it not long ago. I am still working on it's problem. But to my surprise, another Amiga 1000 showed up on my local Craigslist. The machine I have was given to me by a friend of mine and I thought well, I could use the floppy from this new machine. So, $30 later I have another Amiga 1000, a Microbotics Starboard2 Ram Expansion, a Supra 4x4 (I think it is a SCSI adapter), and a Supradrive 40mb Hard Disk for the Amiga 1000. It connects to the Supradrive 4x4.
So, after I took the new computer apart, cleaned out the dust, cleaned and re-greased the floppy, cleaned the heads, the computer works fine running kickstart 1.3 and workbench 1.3. Great so far.
So now I want that Microbotics Starboard2 to run. I took it apart to replace the AAA battery and there was a small amount of corrosion on the battery connection on the negative side which I cleaned up. I used a multimeter on the circiutboard to verify that I was getting 1.5v on the board, which it is.
I connected it to the side expansion port and booted up the machine.
First couple of tries it just hung up at the load workbench screen. The third try, and the computer gave a loud tone with lots of screen distortion. So, I removed it and after a few tries, I got back to running the machine normally. It takes a few tries like there is a ram issue but after a couple of tries, it is fine.
So, I decided to use the Supra 4x4 connected to the Amiga first, and then the Starboard2 connected to the outside of the Supra 4x4. This is how the original owner had it set up. Supra first (to the hard drive), and then outside of it, the Starboard2. I booted and could not even get to the kickstart screen.
My question is, does anyone have any thoughts on how to proceed with connecting the Starboard2? It is supposed to be plug-and-play.
Oh, The only way to get the Amiga to boot up again (after a problem) is to remove that stupid 256k ram expansion on the front of the machine, reboot with no ram, shut it down, re-insert the front 256k ram, reboot to a good state. Weird. Is there some kind of interrupt thing going on?
Regards,
Rob
Grants Pass, Oregon
I am the guy that posted a question about my Amiga 1000 and the fact the floppy drive was not working. I posted it not long ago. I am still working on it's problem. But to my surprise, another Amiga 1000 showed up on my local Craigslist. The machine I have was given to me by a friend of mine and I thought well, I could use the floppy from this new machine. So, $30 later I have another Amiga 1000, a Microbotics Starboard2 Ram Expansion, a Supra 4x4 (I think it is a SCSI adapter), and a Supradrive 40mb Hard Disk for the Amiga 1000. It connects to the Supradrive 4x4.
So, after I took the new computer apart, cleaned out the dust, cleaned and re-greased the floppy, cleaned the heads, the computer works fine running kickstart 1.3 and workbench 1.3. Great so far.
So now I want that Microbotics Starboard2 to run. I took it apart to replace the AAA battery and there was a small amount of corrosion on the battery connection on the negative side which I cleaned up. I used a multimeter on the circiutboard to verify that I was getting 1.5v on the board, which it is.
I connected it to the side expansion port and booted up the machine.
First couple of tries it just hung up at the load workbench screen. The third try, and the computer gave a loud tone with lots of screen distortion. So, I removed it and after a few tries, I got back to running the machine normally. It takes a few tries like there is a ram issue but after a couple of tries, it is fine.
So, I decided to use the Supra 4x4 connected to the Amiga first, and then the Starboard2 connected to the outside of the Supra 4x4. This is how the original owner had it set up. Supra first (to the hard drive), and then outside of it, the Starboard2. I booted and could not even get to the kickstart screen.
My question is, does anyone have any thoughts on how to proceed with connecting the Starboard2? It is supposed to be plug-and-play.
Oh, The only way to get the Amiga to boot up again (after a problem) is to remove that stupid 256k ram expansion on the front of the machine, reboot with no ram, shut it down, re-insert the front 256k ram, reboot to a good state. Weird. Is there some kind of interrupt thing going on?
Regards,
Rob
Grants Pass, Oregon
