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What a crappy day...
Posted 12-04-2009 at 03:27 PM by xeron
Financial pressures have caused me to have to sell a lot of my Amiga stuff. The latest casualty is my Amiga 2000. I'm trying to put together a nice A2000 system to bring in a decent amount of money, so I got the Amiga out of the loft, found my AmigaNET zorro network card, and the floppy drive i'd borrowed for a different machine and started putting it all back together.
Upon firing it up, I realise that the hard disk is broken, and my only other SCSI hard disk is in my A1200. Oh well, I can always get another disk for the A1200 in the future, and theres nothing on there that isn't replacable, so I grabbed the HD out of there and put it in the 2000. Of course, its only after I repartition and format the thing before it dawns on me that the A1200 was the only way for me to download stuff from the internet and get it on a floppy disk; none of my modern machines even have floppy drives! I don't have the drivers for the AmigaNET card, or the GVP IOExtender in the A2000 and I was going to download them off the internet. Oh, and I can't find the AUI transceiver that lets you hook the network card up to modern networking equipment either. I must have seen that thing about a zillion times when I didn't need it... :-/
So now I can't even test half the stuff in the A2000.
Oh and my laptop decided to die too. I have no money for a replacement. What a crappy day.
Upon firing it up, I realise that the hard disk is broken, and my only other SCSI hard disk is in my A1200. Oh well, I can always get another disk for the A1200 in the future, and theres nothing on there that isn't replacable, so I grabbed the HD out of there and put it in the 2000. Of course, its only after I repartition and format the thing before it dawns on me that the A1200 was the only way for me to download stuff from the internet and get it on a floppy disk; none of my modern machines even have floppy drives! I don't have the drivers for the AmigaNET card, or the GVP IOExtender in the A2000 and I was going to download them off the internet. Oh, and I can't find the AUI transceiver that lets you hook the network card up to modern networking equipment either. I must have seen that thing about a zillion times when I didn't need it... :-/
So now I can't even test half the stuff in the A2000.
Oh and my laptop decided to die too. I have no money for a replacement. What a crappy day.
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That does read as a pretty crappy day, nothing worst than having to part with items especially if they have sentimental value and then adding insult to injury by breaking down on you - argh!!Posted 12-04-2009 at 07:23 PM by Skippy 
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Bugger! Is there any chance you could use a serial link or something?
Posted 12-30-2009 at 05:20 PM by Karlos
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Ok, a slightly better suggestion.
Do you have an IDE hard disk you can use in the A1200 for a network enabled OS install? If you can do that and you can simultaneously use your SCSI disk, you can use the A1200 do download and put all the drivers and stuff you'll need for the A2000 on the SCSI disk and then put the SCSI disk back in the A2000. After that, just locally install them. And as a plus point, your A1200 remains usable (albeit on an old IDE drive, but what the heck, I still use one) until such a time you can add another SCSI one to it.Posted 12-31-2009 at 02:42 PM by Karlos
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Yeah, i'm sure I'll come up with something...
Posted 01-04-2010 at 02:04 AM by xeron
