Amiga A2000 + GVP SCSI HD Controller

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A few weeks ago I won an Amiga A2000 off ebay.
The other day I tried to install a GVP CSI HD Controller but every time I tried booting I kept on getting the software failure on the first floppy click.

what could the problem be?
how could it be fixed?
does the A2000 support a hard drive?

Thanks

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is that revision4 and above on the B2000 or A2000 Motherboards?

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Ok Thanks for the advice.

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I just tried the GVP card out.
(The A2000 RevA is Kick1.3)
On autoboot the a2000 gets as far as the first click then gives me this requester saying program suspended to cancel to reboot or retry to retry.
with autoboot off i boots normally onto the floppy dirve.

the HD is set for ID 0
what ID should the GVP Board be?
If that is the problem.

If it is not what could it be?

Thanks

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There was an A500 HD Controller that used something different to RDB that autobooted on 1.2.

my A2000 is definately 1.3 since I checked the number on the rom with one on the BBoAH.

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so the error could be caused because the ID is set incorrectly on the board?

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If this works then thanks.

If it doesn't I will reply back again.

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I have tried the card in all zorro slots before changing ID number but it still kept on giving me the software failure requester just after the first floppy drive click.

Later on today I am going to try changing ID to 7 on the board to see if that works.

Thanks

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Tried to get the GVP SCSI card to work but kept on giving me software failure requesters.

even tried the card without the ram (the jumpers were set correctly) and with different hard drives with ID 0 but made no difference.

I am going to try and get hold of another A2000 (not B2000) compatible SCSI card to see if that works.

Thanks for all the advice.

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