For nearly 20 years, I’ve held onto the original SCSI hard drive that my old BBS used to reside on and for sometime I’ve contemplated the idea of attempting to restore the contents of that drive into another Amiga just for curiosities sake. I’ve often glanced at it and wondered whether or not it still works. So for a few years now, I’ve been searching for a boxed Amiga to return it to, however boxed Amiga’s have become somewhat of a collectors item in recent years, and it’s become somewhat futile. I found an Amiga A4000/040 with a Picasso card the other day for over $3500US! 🙁
Anyway, this past week my curiosity has gotten the best of me and this morning I’ve taken the first big step into attempting to restore the contents of the drive by purchasing an Adaptec AHA-2940UW SCSI PCI controller card off ebay. I had intended to put it in an old PC I had lying around which fired up ok but it appears to be generating a long BIOS beep code which is usually akin to a memory error. The trouble is, it doesn’t do it all the time though which is annoying. It’s making me wonder whether or not there’s a short somewhere perhaps. Later, I may have a closer look at that. But for the time being, I’ll wait for the card to arrive then I’ll go from there.