New Amiga toy

[Teo Zenios]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Witchy" <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 7:34 PM
Subject: New Amiga toy


> Over at BinaryDinosaurs Towers I was 'slightly' pleased to get sent an
> Amiga 4000/040 that's been tricked out with a CyberStorm 3 68060/FastSCSI
> II CPU card and CyberVision 64/3D graphics complete with CD and drives.
> It's yellowed a lot so I'll be digging through the recent archives on
> 'curing yellowed plastic' that I foolishly ignored but the main question
> is on disk cloning.

Looking at http://www.amiga-hardware.com the Phase 5: Cyberstorm Mk-III has
a 68 pin SCSI connector. The manual is found here:
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/manuals/cyberstormmkiii.lha

Drivers here:
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/drivers/A4000_A3000_Accelerators/Phase5_060Install.dms.readme

For the Video card:
manual:
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/manuals/cv3dmanual.lha

Dont see drivers for it there

>
> It's boot drive is a 2.5gb Fuji that needs percussive maintenance to get
> it to run so I'm in a need of cloning it ASAP. I've got a known good 2.1gb
> Quantum Fireball that I want to transfer the boot disk contents to, so far
> my experiments with linux (aside from dd) haven't worked since the drives
> are different sizes.
>
> Any CBM experts got any pointers for me? The current boot drive has lots
> of things on I want to keep though upgrading the OS to 3.5 would be nice
> since it has more internet flavoured tools.
>
> This brings me to another question - where can I get an ethernet board for
> this beastie?
>
> TIA :)
>
>
> -- 
> adrian/witchy
> Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
> www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UKs biggest home computer collection?

Personally when I get an Amiga I remove the original drive and put it on the
shelf, I then make a list of all the hardware and revisions and download all
the drivers disks. I like rebuilding the system with a newer HD, this way I
can make sure it is running 100% and I have all the files needed to redo it
again from scratch if needed. Before rebuilding I also take the system apart
and clean everything (also look for leaking batteries).

The 060 chips sound interesting. Since I mainly play games with mine I stick
to 030 processors. My A1200 has an 030/50 and my A2000 has a 030/40. The
only machine that has a network card is the a1200 since it can use most 16
bit PCMCIA cards that are easy to get.

What plans do you have for that machine?