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Reading through the trove of documentation, I'm so confused: if I have a Motorola 68030 accelerated Amiga, what is the latest AmigaOS which will run on my hard

• e12e 10y ago
  The post references the release, which mentions fixes for 68020/30 processors and the scsi driver for the A1200 -- so I assume this would be it?
  • Jaruzel 10y ago
    Vanilla Amiga OS 3.1 has a scsi.device (think hardware driver) that can only talk properly to storage devices up to 4GB in size. Disks bigger than that will get corrupted as any sector offset bigger than the 4GB boundary rolls around back to zero. For a long time there has been patched unofficial scsi.device files and in Amiga OS 3.9, an official scsi.device that doesn't have this limitation. Hardly any real[1] Amiga fan runs stock Amiga OS 3.1 - most of us have loads of patches in our startup-sequences to overcome modern day issues. --- [1] There is a large segment of the Amiga community who only game on their Amigas using 4GB CF cards on the IDE channel and a product called WHDLoad (http://whdload.de/ http://whdload.de/), they do not care about the OS so don't fiddle with it.
• Jaruzel 10y ago
  Version 3.9. You have to install 3.1 first. Then get a [legal] copy of 3.9 and install that. On every cold boot up, it patches a newer kickstart ROM image into RAM, and then does a soft reboot, so that the newer stuff on 3.9 works properly. More info here -> http://www.vesalia.de/e_os39.htm http://www.vesalia.de/e_os39.htm
  • Annatar 10y ago
    Thank you for the information. How does one install it, if it's on an optical medium? I don't have a CD-ROM or a DVD drive on my Amiga, only network and NFS.