[vcf-midatlantic] Amiga help

[Joshua Abraham]

Usually you can infer the version based on what version of workbench it’s asking for. Otherwise you’ll have to look up the Rom part number itself on the board. 

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On Dec 1, 2020, at 12:48 PM, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

>> It would be nice if I could get it to boot from the hard drive.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Listen to see if the disks are spinning. If not a thunk against the table should fix.
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>> 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
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> Good news that it still works hopefully!