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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: murple on July 24, 2007, 11:25:51 PM
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I have an Amiga 2000 with a GVP G-Force 030 Combo Card which has a 68030 accelerator and an integrated SCSI adapter which my disk and CD are connected to.
I also have a GVP Series II 2000 HC+8 SCSI adapter that I used to use. I'd like to put it into my computer along with the Combo Card, but only use it for a RAM expansion. Is it possible to put this card in and just use the memory on it? I dont have any immediate plans to, but could I also use the SCSI on it as well as the SCSI on the combo card, or can Amigas only handle one SCSI adapter?
The extra RAM is the main thing I care about though ;)
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It is, just disable autoboot
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=1196
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Thats funny you ask. Today I was attempting to put in a CD ROM on the same card. I was having bum luck getting both the HD and CD to be recognized at the same time. And then my HD died. So I removed the HD from the card and power/SCSI Cable leaving only my 8 MB of RAM. I booted with a floppy into WB3.1 to test your very question and had no problems what so ever.
You dont have to disable autoboot but it will speed up the search the card does for SCSI devices
So there you go...
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But how does GVP handle multiple device names? Commodore handles it as scsi.device and 2nd.scsi.device, etc...
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Yeah I saw in the manual that you can disable autoboot. I dont know if you can completely disable the SCSI though... or if you can use both at once and if the OS sees them separately.
I think you CAN completely disable the SCSI on the Combo Card, but I think if you use a SCSI integrated on an accelerator in the CPU bus thats probably faster than a Zorro card.