The other day I put a noctua fan in the power supply of the Amiga 4000 and that's because it was too fucking loud to have on set for the video toaster video. i mean it was just deafening. i tried putting it in the other room and running long extension cables to it, but I just felt this sense of inauthenticity throughout the entire shoot that really bugged me.
with a heavy heart I have resolved to do a reshoot, so I decided to bite the bullet and try to quiet the thing down, thus the fan swap. the new fan is shockingly quiet, but when I reconnected the PSU and turned the machine on I found out that half the noise was coming from the awful old 4.3gb hard drive
I'd heard that putting a CF card in these was easy, but every time I've ever tried that it's been a miserable slog of trial and error to find a card that will work and the exact right way to write it. I needed to do what I needed to do though, so I brought the hard drive home, dubbed it onto a random 16 gig CF card I had laying around using linux dd, took it to the office today, plugged it in... and it just booted right up. Works perfectly.
I guess since commodore introduced the IDE interface on the Amiga 4000, which only came out in 1992, it probably never used CHS. i've been told that problems with CF card swaps are pretty much always due to LBA>CHS translation mismatches, but this machine as most likely LBA from the get-go, so yeah, of course it just worked instantly. Old computers are very bad and the older they are the worse they are
anyway i now have a dead silent amiga 4000 which i can use on-set. amazing
