Amiga A2000 + GVP SCSI HD Controller

[Azryl]

All A2000 with revision 4 and above motherboards should have NO problems with the gvp scsi harddrives

check the "big book of amiga hardware" to check your jumper settings, if a memory jumper is incorrectly set then trying to boot from the installation floppy might cause software crashes

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/gvpimpactii2000hc8.html

I assume that is the GVP card you are trying to setup
also, try downloading the install disk again or a later version of the gvp install software.

hope this is of some help

[Azryl]

motherboards from version 3.9 and above were the B2000

here, read this to get a better understanding of when and why the amiga 2000 had changes to the motherboard design.

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/a2000.html


if you could supply a few more details about your machine

kickstart version
GVP scsi controller series I or II  etc

the GVP install software works with kickstart 1.3 and above
usually kickstart 1.2 does not support autobooting from scsi harddrives without the drive controller providing extra boot logic on the card etc

[Azryl]

GVP scsi cards are usually factory set to ID 7

okies, you will probably have to setup the harddrive itself again using the GVP software faaastprep

I'm sure kickstart 1.3 will allow harddrive capacity of sizes upto 1 gigabyte on most gvp bootroms (my memory might be failing me there.. doh!) so how big is your scsi drive?

try this link for the setup software
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/drivers/drivers/SCSI_Controllers/GVPImpactSeriesII.dms

some hints once into the faaastprep
most amiga users have 2 partitions setup.. a smaller boot partition and a larger storage partition. The reason for a small boot partition is for when the volume becomes invalid for whatever reason, a small partition validates itself quicker. Make sure its large enough to install workbench onto, around 50meg is ideal (if your drive is larger than this. lol)

first partition DH0
second partition DH1

thats DHzero
DHone

you need AmigaOS device names.. use the above as a rough standard

once you have setup your partitions, write them to the drive ( small button up along the top right of the faaastprep software says.. "write" this will lock the changes to the drive )

you will now need to "format" the drive with a filesystem, FastFileSystem or FFS is what you should use for kickstart 1.3

Once the drives are formatted (prolly take ages!) you then can install your workbench disks onto the drive and reboot, now you should not have any more crashes unless we have missed something

best of luck

[Azryl]

geez... can we get back on topic here and HELP this guy with his problem with his CURRENT hardware

not confuse the issue with opinions and preferences for diff hardware


the guy HAS an A2000 and a GVP scsi board

lets be good Amigans and get his computer running properly before polluting the topic?

opinions and ego have there own discussion somewhere in this forum, go there


Azryl

[Azryl]

might be redundant thinking, but you might also like to try the GVP card in another zorro slot, maybe move it closer towards the Power Supply. Or, try running the scsi harddrive not with the gvp onboard power connector but from a spare power connect from the PSU.

This is to check to see if adequate power is being supplied to the scsi drive thru the card etc

good luck