One of the best uses of the CMD HD is its ability to backup the entire contents of a RAMLink to a so-called "Foreign Partition"... so just in case your RAMLink ever loses its power and, therefore, its content, you *can* restore it from the HD... depending on how often you make a backup.
Great video Alex! I wish I had know about Disk Jockey when I setup the Zulu SCSI for my 128D dev machine. I ended up making my image with WinUAE since I was originally using the Zulu SCSI on the Amiga.
When you're creating your partitions, when you're at the point and see 256 blocks as the starting number, just press '-' and that goes around the horn and gives you the maximum partition size. Way faster than incrementing it up with countless keypresses like you did in the video. Nice video though!
One thing I miss when using those solid state replacements is the actual noise from the hard drive. Btw, it is not Jim Brain's ROM, that version was released by CMD. Jim just has the right to sell them. EDIT: If you press "-" at the size selection you it will wrap around and you will get the maximum amount of blocks.
I still have the HD-100 I bought new in the mid/late-1990s. It still works well too (for now). Regardless, I seriously want this upgrade done for it but I'm not the one to do the hardware parts. Wondering to whom, to where and how best to send it.
You may want to try one of the Commodore forums out there and find someone in your area that has a good reputation with repairs. This would not be a costly retrofit in terms of labor and I believe the zuluSCSI board was around $50usd for the unassembled version or around $80usd assembled
@@revivingretro I am working on that. I've been working to establish rapport in general with the community I'm now in the process of rejoining. It's amazing to me how much devotion this platform retains and maintains over time. I'm just not sure who's local to me yet.
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What a nice addition to your inventory.
I used to have one of those CMD drives. I also had an Xetek Lt. Kernal as well.
One of the best uses of the CMD HD is its ability to backup the entire contents of a RAMLink to a so-called "Foreign Partition"... so just in case your RAMLink ever loses its power and, therefore, its content, you *can* restore it from the HD... depending on how often you make a backup.
Great suggestion!
Great video Alex! I wish I had know about Disk Jockey when I setup the Zulu SCSI for my 128D dev machine. I ended up making my image with WinUAE since I was originally using the Zulu SCSI on the Amiga.
Thanks for hooking me up Mike. This was a fun project!
When you're creating your partitions, when you're at the point and see 256 blocks as the starting number, just press '-' and that goes around the horn and gives you the maximum partition size. Way faster than incrementing it up with countless keypresses like you did in the video.
Nice video though!
Good call! That's a much quicker way to go!
One thing I miss when using those solid state replacements is the actual noise from the hard drive. Btw, it is not Jim Brain's ROM, that version was released by CMD. Jim just has the right to sell them.
EDIT: If you press "-" at the size selection you it will wrap around and you will get the maximum amount of blocks.
Thank you for the good info! :)
I still have the HD-100 I bought new in the mid/late-1990s. It still works well too (for now). Regardless, I seriously want this upgrade done for it but I'm not the one to do the hardware parts. Wondering to whom, to where and how best to send it.
You may want to try one of the Commodore forums out there and find someone in your area that has a good reputation with repairs. This would not be a costly retrofit in terms of labor and I believe the zuluSCSI board was around $50usd for the unassembled version or around $80usd assembled
@@revivingretro I am working on that. I've been working to establish rapport in general with the community I'm now in the process of rejoining. It's amazing to me how much devotion this platform retains and maintains over time. I'm just not sure who's local to me yet.
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You totally missed how to hook it to the computer...
Not sure what you mean. It just connects to the C64 with the serial cable like any other drive.