Closed Hard drive/storage solution for A2000

[robin-elvin]

Hi,

I have a vanilla A2000 which I'd like to add some kind of bootable storage to. I'm not looking to make this into an accelerated machine so cheap and cheerful is fine, in fact cheap as possible, please.

Anyone got anything available to sell? I don't need hard disks or flash RAM as I have plenty of those - I just need the interface card.

 

[ptyerman]

I have a GVP Impact II I may be willing to sell, sending PM.

 

[jcarvalho]

look here!

https://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?42748-A2000-SCSI-A2090-controller

 

[robin-elvin]

Would have been perfect apart from the A2090 isn't bootable :-(

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[ptyerman]

You can boot it using a bare bones startup floppy. Just need to put the drivers on a floppy and write a small startup-sequence to boot it.

 

[robin-elvin]

You can boot it using a bare bones startup floppy. Just need to put the drivers on a floppy and write a small startup-sequence to boot it.

Ok, I'm thinking about it Do you have any info on how to create the floppy?

 

[Damon1971]

Why not look into kippers ide device 4or 8mb upgrade as well auto lot as well.

 

[matt3k]

PM Sent.

 

[ptyerman]

Basically you would start with the drivers on a floppy that boots the machine then use the assign command in startup-sequence to assign Workbench and the rest of the boot-up files to the hard drive. The driver floppy may even do this as standard, but if not you could use a copy of it or a Workbench disk to customize to suit.

 

[robin-elvin]

Found some info here: http://gunkies.org/wiki/A2090
(In case it helps anyone else)

 

[robin-elvin]

Found elsewhere - please close