14 September 2021, 23:42 | #1 |
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Is there any way to use a USB hard drive (or zip drive) on A2000?
Is there any way to use a USB hard drive (or zip drive) on A2000?
I know I can convert an IDE to scsi in a case or ESATA drive to SCSI the same way... But I have a Zip 250 I want to use (z250USBPCM model) that has the USB connector and a second connector I am not sure what it is, that I would like to use on the Amiga. Anyone have any info on this? |
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I use a couple of rapidroads with Poseidon and so far been able to connect things like card readers, usb sound cards etc.. Individual computers sell these but you may get them from Amiga resellers: X-surf 100 https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop/...-surf-100.html Rapid road usb https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop/...droad-usb.html Poseidon can be downloaded from this page with rapidroad drivers http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/RapidRoad Last edited by Jpor; 15 September 2021 at 00:07. |
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Great will take a look at those asap.. Been searching with no luck so figured I would ask here ... Was starting to think for my A2000 I might be outta luck. |
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Ugh.. no it does not.. basic A2000 with 1 meg chip, 2 meg fast, an A2091, Floppy (added a Gotek as well) and that's it. Oh and running 2.04 unless I can find a original Rom that works someplace for 3.1 or higher (tried the Cloanto rom but I get some very odd behavior where it won't boot the WB from anything BUT the cloanto files even with the .library file moved)
Anyhow, I guess I need to find an 020 card.. I really wish I had not lost my original Sapphire 020 card that my own dev company created back in the day.. I hope someday I find out floating out there someone will sell me as I am trying to replace all I lost in a house fire as much as possible.. Sadly a lot of source code and hardware though, is lost forever now. BTW, do you happen to know if there is a took for the A2000 running 2.04 that would allow me to eject a Zip 100 disk and when I insert a new one, auto refresh the drive so I don't have to reboot the machine? Something like what the floppies do? |
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Do you have Amiga formatted disks with data on them that you need to archive/recover?
Given all those barriers, Isn't it more straightforward to just hookup the drive to a PC and run WinUAE? That'll allow you to read the disks 'natively' inside the emulated Amiga. Then you can always transfer the files through some more straightforward method later to the A2000. |
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Normally if you mount the drive using a mountlist entry or DOSDriver, then disk change should be recognised automatically. Only if you partitioned the disks like a harddrive, then disk changes are not supported. |
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I did buy a 3.1 Cloanto rom and cannot get it to work unless I install their own disks only... It's odd.. If I use their rom and install 3.9 I get NO icons on the Workbench and no menus. And yes, I know the workbench library has to be manually installed because that was removed in their rom... It does not fix the problem... BUT if I install the Cloanto disks that came with the Rom it works.... If I do that first then UPGRADE to 3.9, yet again it goes back to the no icons, no menus situation... So unless I can find an original 3.x kickstart rom for the A2000 somewhere, I am stuck using 2.04 |
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So the 2000 ROM you have is 3.1 version 40.063? Are you sure you have the correct ROM version?
I don’t think you can get original 3.1 ROMs for the A2000. You can for the A1200 and A4000 as they were the last Amiga models to be sold before Commodore went bankrupt. Unless commodore sold upgraded ROMs for the past Amiga Models? |
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And I thought there was a 3.1 rom kickstart released for the A2500 HD when I was still there in fact? Been a long time so I might be thinking of the A1200 or A4000 but I could swear we did upgrade the rom for the A2xxx series right about the time the A3000 was released... Either way, if I am wrong on that, then Cloanto is the only one that has a 3.x rom I take it... So now the question is, why the heck am I seeing the symptoms I am seeing? To me it makes NO sense at all that as long as I use the Cloanto disks with that rom, all is well.. But the moment I alter and upgrade those disk to 3.5 or 3.9, all goes to shit. |
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Well check this video just realised on YouTube from Chris Edwards about programming your own ROMs
[ Show youtube player ] I’m going to buy a kit myself |
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3.1 was only sold by Commodore inside the A4000T and CD32, but it was built for every model and later sold for every model by Village Tronic.
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We're lucky that 3.1 got out. :-)
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I have a 3.1 v40.63 (A500/A600/A2000) Rom from Hyperion. |
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3.1 ROM chips for the 2000 can be bought at almost any dealer. Make sure you don’t confuse it with a 3.X ROM, which is Cloanto’s custom version, roughly corresponding to OS3.9.
For swapping Zip disks, have a look at SCSIMounter on Aminet. |
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