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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: dwezel on May 23, 2005, 02:36:26 AM
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I am fairly new to the Amiga world and recently purchased an Amiga 2000 with an IVS Vector 030 accelerator that had 32 megs of ram and attached a 120meg SCSI HD / 4x CD-RW. This system has the 3.1 roms. I am trying to figure out how to upgrade the HD to a 4gig SCSI I have. Are there any other Vector accelerator owners out there that might give me a hand?
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You should be able to use HDToolBox to prep the new drive.
Just add the new HD to the SCSI chain (make sure it has a unique ID). Boot with your existing HD, change or add the HDToolBox tooltype 'SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=IVS_SCSIpro.device' (without quotes, and case sensitive), then run HDToolBox. You should then see the new HD, and be able to install and partition it. Make sure you set a partition as bootable. Reboot and quick format the new partitions, then copy everything from your old Sys: over to the new boot partition.
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Being that the device driver I have is dated back to 1992 can I assume there is a limit of 4gb size or is it even smaller than that?
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Ok I need some more help. I tried what you suggested. I booted up the computer with the original hard drive and added the second hard drive as SCSI ID1. I changed the information on the HDtoolbox icon to add device=IVS_SCSIpro.device and made sure this file was in the devs AND Expansions folders. When I launched the HDtoolbox it says Driver not installed. How do I install the driver? I thought copying the ivs_scsivector.device and the ivs_scsipro.device to the devs folder was how I installed them (and rebot of course). Help!?!?!