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Tesral
11-27-2002, 02:07 AM
All our Amigas are getting old. I am down to one somewhat working A 4000 board with the required Buster 11 chip. Paula is pretty bad off. The floppy light is on constantly, and it might as well not be there. So, how bad is it? Second, is anyone still upgrading and repairing these board in the US of A? I have a slightly better board, but with buster 9 soldered on same. I could use a reliable spare.
Doobrey
11-27-2002, 07:03 PM
It sounds more like the floppy cable is plugged in wrong on the drive..
Checking this on a 4000 is a bugger, cos you gotta disassemble the front of the case, unscrew the drive bays and pull it out..

I recently took mine apart to clean all the dust out of it as it was getting loads of disk errors. I put the cable back in 1 pin out of place, and it took ages to boot and the floppy light stayed on!

BTW, Buster 9 isn`t that bad.. AFAIK v11 is only needed if you use Z3 DMA type cards (fastlane scsi etc). ZII should be fine.
Tesral
11-29-2002, 12:46 AM
Doobrey wrote:
It sounds more like the floppy cable is plugged in wrong on the drive..
Checking this on a 4000 is a bugger, cos you gotta disassemble the front of the case, unscrew the drive bays and pull it out..

I recently took mine apart to clean all the dust out of it as it was getting loads of disk errors. I put the cable back in 1 pin out of place, and it took ages to boot and the floppy light stayed on!

BTW, Buster 9 isn`t that bad.. AFAIK v11 is only needed if you use Z3 DMA type cards (fastlane scsi etc). ZII should be fine.

I strip these thing down for fun (scarcasm). An Amiga used better be good at hardware, the local computer "repairman" will just give you funny looks.

As to the buster well, faselane, warp drive, cybervision 64 3D, yea, I NEED that buster 11. Half my computer will not work without same.

Right now the faselane is sitting in a drawer waiting for me to upgrade the buster on my 3000. All that ram (drool)
Acill
12-02-2002, 06:59 PM
Well if you think the drive id bad you can get a kylwalda adapter and use a PC drive to test it out. They are only $25 at www.softhut.com