What I still like to do is check if the 30 your old disks in my Amiga
4000 still work, and if there are maybe some files on them that can be rescued to add to the archive. And then there are a lot of even older floppies... Condition unkown...
And can you even read Amiga floppy's on a Linux system?
What I still like to do is check if the 30 your old disks in my Amiga
4000 still work, and if there are maybe some files on them that can
be rescued to add to the archive. And then there are a lot of even
older floppies... Condition unkown...
Is the battery removed?
The hd might need a jentle thud with your palm, if it dson't spin up
at first.
And can you even read Amiga floppy's on a Linux system?
greaseweazle and a emulator if your A4000 is dead.
What I still like to do is check if the 30 your old disks in my Amiga 4000 still work, and if there are maybe some files on them that can
be rescued to add to the archive.
Is the battery removed?
Yes, I did that decades ago. But there might have been already a bit
of corrosion at the time of removal, if I remember correctly. I don't
know if it did any damage. The Amiga 4000 hasn't been turned on since then. And I probably shouldn't because of aged capacitors, that need
to be replaced to not cause any further damage before I turn it on...
The hd might need a jentle thud with your palm, if it don't spin
up at first.
Good to know. But I had bad experiences with old HD's in the last
couple of weeks. All aged 10 years or older, and not been turned on
for maybe 5 to 10 years. All would spin up just fine, but 3 out of 7
or 8 had read problems on some files...
Do you maybe have archives or backups from the 90's? I see you are
already present in the oldest AmigaNet nodelist from 1995 that is in
the archive! ;-)
3: SEAGATE: ST31200N 1050MB SCSI2 (April 1995)
I didn't remember it was in there ;-) And it is going to be a problem.
I need to find somekind of scsi interface for the modern desktop. And
I'm not willing to spend more then a couple of bucks to find out what
is on this disk, that might not even work any more.
Yes, I did that decades ago. But there might have been already a bit
of corrosion at the time of removal, if I remember correctly. I don't
know if it did any damage. The Amiga 4000 hasn't been turned on since
then. And I probably shouldn't because of aged capacitors, that need
to be replaced to not cause any further damage before I turn it on...
Yeah best to get them replaced, and the battery acid looked at.
drivesGood to know. But I had bad experiences with old HD's in the last
couple of weeks. All aged 10 years or older, and not been turned on
for maybe 5 to 10 years. All would spin up just fine, but 3 out of 7
or 8 had read problems on some files...
Yeah, it's a 50/50 chance with old drives. I've been able to image old
in the past... A couple just in time before they then died. #-\
intoDo you maybe have archives or backups from the 90's? I see you are
already present in the oldest AmigaNet nodelist from 1995 that is in
the archive! ;-)
No old backup's... I left the amiga screen just as C= died! Only got back
it about 10 years ago now..
A lot of water under the bridge, and lost data.... I now do backup's a
lot more often (Both pc/amiga).
20940's3: SEAGATE: ST31200N 1050MB SCSI2 (April 1995)
I didn't remember it was in there ;-) And it is going to be a problem.
I need to find somekind of scsi interface for the modern desktop. And
I'm not willing to spend more then a couple of bucks to find out what
is on this disk, that might not even work any more.
Pitty your on the other side of the planet! I still have two Adaptech
with cables...
They both still work, as during last year I tested a 68Pin scis drive before putting it near any amiga.
Out of the hords of stuff I still have! You never know if/when someone wants to get somthing off a old drive.
So I opened up my Amiga 4000, to get the disks out. To my surpriseyears, so
there were 3 disks.
The 2 expected pata disks:
1: QUANTUM: PRODRIVE LPS 240 AT 245MB (Sep. 1996)
2: WESTERN DIGITAL: AC-2540 516MB (Feb. 1994)
If they still work it should not be a problem to create a disk image from them, and go from there. But they haven't been turned on for some 25
it would be kind of amazing if they still work and data can be read fromthem.
Do you maybe have archives or backups from the 90's? I see you
are already present in the oldest AmigaNet nodelist from 1995
that is in the archive! ;-)
No old backup's... I left the amiga screen just as C= died! Only
got back into it about 10 years ago now..
Pitty! ;-)
A lot of water under the bridge, and lost data.... I now do
backup's a lot more often (Both pc/amiga).
Same here. I think you lived much more in the moment then, and enjoyed your time spend on the Amniga, and backups didn't come to mind (so
much). Also computers didn't take up such a big part of daily live.
LCD screens didn't even exist, and digital photo camera's neither, or
were way to expensive. So there was much less data, and HD space was
much more expensive and less available...
Pitty your on the other side of the planet! I still have two
Adaptech 20940's with cables...
Is that an Amiga card? (Google doesn't give any results, even without
the 'h'). I need something I can connect to (or in) my Linux desktop!
;-)
They both still work, as during last year I tested a 68Pin scsi
drive before putting it near any amiga.
I think mine is connected with a 50 pin cable, but I haven't counted.
;-)
Out of the hords of stuff I still have! You never know if/when
someone wants to get somthing off a old drive.
Indeed. ;-)
Yeah.. Never thought I'd be back on the Amiga bandwagon!
LCD screens didn't even exist, and digital photo camera's neither, or
were way to expensive. So there was much less data, and HD space was
much more expensive and less available...
CRT's have contrubuted to my very bad eye sight.
As sson as I could I switched to LCD's. I'm short sigted,
and have had glasses since 10.
But in the past 1.5 years they have gotten worse...
Is that an Amiga card? (Google doesn't give any results, even without
the 'h'). I need something I can connect to (or in) my Linux desktop!
;-)
Geez, my typing was crap that day... Adaptec AHA-2940UW...
They both still work, as during last year I tested a 68Pin scsi
drive before putting it near any amiga.
I think mine is connected with a 50 pin cable, but I haven't counted.
;-)
Old and fat cable = 50pin. #-) (Watching Chris Edwards video on youtube).
Out of the hords of stuff I still have! You never know if/when
someone wants to get somthing off a old drive.
Indeed. ;-)
Yep. That's also why I still have a couple of MB's with IDE on them.. #-)
A couple of weeks back I "found" a backup of an old system of mine, "hidden"was a
somewhere in a sub/sub directory of my data disk. On that backup there
set of old AmigaNet nodelists. This put me on a quest to find as many old AmigaNet nodelists as possible. So the last couple of weeks I wentthrough all
old HD's I still had laying around from the last couple of decenia, andfound
a lot of them!keeping
I also found out that not all disks are still 100% readable. Most still worked, but some had read errors on a lot of files. So if you think
old hard disks for backup or archival purposes, think again!a bit
Finding them is one thing, putting them in an organized archive was also
of work. I came across different file names AMYLIST.* AmyList.*,different
compression formats: .zip and .lha, or not compressed. And files thatdidn't
have the correct file date. But that is all sorted now. ;-)
The result can be found here:
https://amiganet.fidoweb.net/amylist-archive/
It's pretty much complete from the time I became the ZC in July 1999
upto now, with only a few missing here and there, and about half a
year from July 2010 to January 2011. But from before that period I
only have 4 from 1995, 1996, 1998 and 1999. Maybe some of you have archives, or backups, or maybe even on floppy's, that can fill in the missing parts? That would be nice! ;-)
This was updated because I found 2 older files this week. One from 6[...]
may 1994, the oldest I have so far, and an other from 1996.
;-) So I guess none of the current AmigaNet nodes were present in
1994, but I didn't do an extensive compare! ;-)
I found these after I posted a message on this forum: https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=119787
And someone responded who had indexed and made searchable the files in
his collection from: https://ftp.grandis.nu/turran/
Which has an enormous collection of Amiga related cd-roms, disks, and files...
https://amiganet.fidoweb.net/amylist-archive/
This was updated because I found 2 older files this week. One from 6[...]
may 1994, the oldest I have so far, and an other from 1996.
;-) So I guess none of the current AmigaNet nodes were present in
1994, but I didn't do an extensive compare! ;-)
Lot's of people went on to do other things!
I found these after I posted a message on this forum:
https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=119787
You was noticed! #-;
And someone responded who had indexed and made searchable the files
in his collection from: https://ftp.grandis.nu/turran/ Which has an
enormous collection of Amiga related cd-roms, disks, and files...
18+TB of stuff!
I found these after I posted a message on this forum:
https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=119787
You was noticed! #-;
A bit to my surprise, because the platform is mostly about games and demos. ;-)
I found these after I posted a message on this forum:
https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=119787
You was noticed! #-;
A bit to my surprise, because the platform is mostly about games and
demos. ;-)
Are you meaning the Amiga or the site?
As there are lots of sub message area's and topics.
A bit to my surprise, because the platform is mostly about games
and demos. ;-)
Are you meaning the Amiga or the site?The site.
As there are lots of sub message area's and topics.
There are lots of topics indeed, but games get the most attention, or
are the motivation for other topics...
There are lots of topics indeed, but games get the most attention, or
are the motivation for other topics...
Oh. I've not noticed that. I'm not a hard core gamer.
There's only a few that I'll play. RTS being my thing! (C&C mentioned
in previous posts).
As a matter of fact, eab is the only amiga fourm I'm mostly on... #-)
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