Ok time for an update after some time.
The Phoenix boldly defended its claim as the biggest Diva in Amigaland. At least for me.
Various hiccups and strange things drove me nuts and made me cheer when it finally worked out. Stressful and rewarding.
However, things seem to come to an end. The machine is 99% (re-)assembled now. Some things needed to be resoldered or otherwise slightly changed.
Eventually, I dropped two switches. The switch to cut off any expansion was removed. I had the impression that a long wire through the whole case at the beginning of the autoconfig sequence had a stability impact. It runs fine now. Similar with the drive switch. Previously, I was able to set the external floppy drive as DF0: and the internal as DF1: It may have been the actual switch.
What’s left now mechanically is to fix the USB2Eth-Adapter to the case.
Issues are few but exist.
With my limited selection of CF-Cards, read: two
, they exclude each other from access at the dual IDE-CF adapter. Both cards work individually and in both slots, just not together. I can live with that.
The thing is that at cold boot, sometimes the SCSI doesn’t seem to initialize. So I first have to switch to Kick1.3, boot a bit, switch off or reset after setting to Kick3.x and the try again. Works. Also, something I can live with.
Yesterday had a blast listening to a CD, then listening to an mp3.
On a MACHINE FROM 1991.
…, the expansions are from a few years later. But still