It would be nice if I could get it to boot from the hard drive.
I have an Amiga 2500 and I run a SCSI2SD card in it. It's attached to the SCSI controller that came in it. One issue is that the SCSI2SD boots slower than the Amiga trying to access it, so I wait a few seconds then do Amiga-Amiga-Control or whatever the reboot three finger salute is. BUT... get this. With WinUAE emulator on Windows laptop, I can stuff that SD card in it and boot the emulator from the same SD card that runs the Amiga. I copied all the WHDLoad stuff in via that means, DiskMash unitilies (DMS files) and other goodies. It's very convienient for moving stuff onto the system. IIRC I setup the SCSI2SD to look like 4 2GB disks or something, and I used the diskutil program? to prep em. Listen to see if the disks are spinning. If not a thunk against the table should fix.
Also after opening the unit I found the battery back up leaked on the board and cleaned that up, but I haven’t turned it on yet to make sure
Good news that it still works hopefully!