ScuzzBlog: Diaries September 2018 Entry 3rd September 2018: Post 01: Amiga 2000 - Backing Up Amiga 2000 - Confused .. You will be There use to be this comedy on TV many many years ago called 'Soap' which basically was a piss take of every soap on TV. What was very amusing was at the beginning of each episode they would do a summary of the previous week with the final words .. 'Confused' and then went on to say that if your weren't then you soon will be. Well that is how this blog is going to feel to many. Anyway, here goes. Previously on my scuzzblog diaries, I had shown the contents if a Quantum hard drive mounted on a GVP Series II card in an Amiga 1500. The card was obtained from a serious Amigan who had lovingly created a work of art with regard to the contents of the drive. Sadly these drives do tend to struggle a bit and I was somewhat worried that it may be coming to the end of its life. Next I had removed the hard drive from an Amiga A2000HD and placed in another Amiga 1500 because I suspected the internal workings of the Amiga 2000HD. In the end it turned out to be no more than a dodgy drive and so yesterday I refitted the card back to the A2000HD machine. In an effort to get a hard drive working on the now rebuilt second Amiga 1500 I installed a GVP Series II that I had in a box but discovered that whilst the card was working along with the fully populated RAM , the drive on the card had long since locked up. With me so far ? So I have one Amiga 1500 with GVP and dodgy card but drive working. I have an Amiga 2000HD with a busted hard drive but working card. And I have this second Amiga 1500 with a working card and locked drive. Confused... well it gets better. Cus in an effort to back up the Quantum on the dodgy GVP Series II I drafted in an Amiga 600 with CF card to try and Parnet across the content. This was a long long day and although only 20 pictures, trust me it in no way reflects the efforts of the day. By the way when I say Amiga 2000 I basically also mean the 1500. Why they re-badged this machine in the UK probably has more to do with The Checkmate than anything else. In truth the A2000 and the A1500 are the same machine... just has two floppy drives and a brown label. Amiga 2000 Backing Up First up I drafted in the use of the A600 with the crappy CF card. Reason.. I needed two computers and two monitors on the bench and the A600 is small and easy to move about. It also has loads of free drive space. The 600 is unexpanded and hasn't been used since I fitted the CF card. Has never felt like a proper Amiga since I removed the 2.5" hard drive so she sits dormant. The drive basically is set up with WB and two large games partitions. Demonstrating sadly what appears to be the current trend of Amiga users today. Anyway, onwards. I set too installing Parnet and needed edit the mount file so I could see the drives across the network connection. I used DOPUS to check the drive names on the Amiga 600, which was already proving to be slower than a very slow thing. Time to rename that pesky games volume. I have no idea how anyone uses an A600 without extra RAM and accelerator. The computer is bonkers slow and I had kinda already decided I needed to dump the A600 in favour of a proper Amiga. I set up the Electrohome on top of the A1500 which proved to be a big big mistake. Basically cus the thing is **cking heavy. First problem was that the drive refused to boot. So I pulled a spare card I had and stuck the dodgy hard drive on to it. No memory as such. And no drive sadly.. Waste of time. I lumped that monitor on and off the A1500 several times checking. No amount of twiddling and reseating worked. The drive just refused to boot up. Time to pull cards and swap machines. Previously on scuzzblog we had tried to fit a drive to a 1500 using a boxed GVP Series II that I had never used. And so I removed the drive I wanted to back up and fitted this to a fully populated Series II in another 1500. Keep up !!!!!!! B I N G O !!!!! Not only but also.. Loads of memory. And so I had for the first time today a working Amiga 1500 and a working GVP Series II and a working hard drive. I really had had enough of lumping around monitors and using crappy CF cards in a very slow Amiga 600.. and so I transferred the project to my upper sanctum and fired up two monitors and an Amiga 1200 with the Blizzard Turbo. Ahhhhhh !!! Much better. And after a short while I had a full copy of the dodgy hard drive off the Series II. Better yet the new card was working like a dream and running without fault. Magic. You can see here the Parnet set up on the 1500. Less confused Certainly relieved to have a copy of that drive all safely tucked away on a proper hard drive.

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