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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: barney on November 11, 2009, 02:04:55 AM
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Hello, I have a GVP G-Force 030 accelerator for my Amiga 2000. I am not sure what version firmware it has since the ROM doesn't have a sticker on it.
My question is, is there a way within the Amiga OS, to see what firmware version I am running. I tried using Sysinfo, but I didn't find any firmware versions.
Thanks.
barney
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GVP accelerators don't have upgradeable firmware. You might be thinking of the SCSI driver, though. Type
version gvpscsi.device in a shell.
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There is only one problem. I have two GVP SCSI cards in my Amiga 2000. The first one is a GVP G-Force 030 accelerator/scsi which I use with my SCSI HD and CDROM. The other GVP card is the 2000 HC+8, which I use strictly as a Ram expansion (nothing connected to the SCSI connector).
When I type "Version gvpscsi.device", how do I know which device it is describing? My GVP 2000 HC+8 does in fact have the version 4.15 ROM Version but the G-Force 030 I have no idea.
Thanks.
Barney
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Interesting question. Some devices prefix a "2nd." or "3rd." if multiple cards are detected (resulting in 2nd.scsi.device), but I think GVP just adds unit numbers (so the first device on the second card will be unit 100 instead of 0). I don't remember exactly how it works.
Fortunately, the version command has a UNIT keyword that might help. (type "version ?" to get the command template).
If you can't get the shell to cooperate, just boot up without the SCSI/RAM card and run "version gvpscsi.device" again.
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I ran that command in shell and it worked fine. I just think that it was referring to my GVP 2000 HC+8, which I already know has the most recent ROM (4.15). I am trying to see what version my GVP/sCSI accelerator has.
I do have another idea. Maybe the startup disk for the GVP/SCSI card will have an app that will give me this information.
Thanks.
Barney
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If you want to be 100% certain, just pull out the RAM card and run the command again.
BUT, I think GVP cards can use the SCSI ROM from a different GVP board if the jumpers are set correctly. If that's the case, the SCSI version of your accelerator won't even matter.
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Just swap the ROM's around, and jumper the HC8+ to NON autoboot. You can even leave the ROM off completely as it is only used for SCSI, not RAM.
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My current configuration now is I am runnining my hard drive and CDrom from my GVP G-force scsi/accelerator card. My 2000 2000 HC+8 is only used as a RAM card and I have the autoboot jumper disabled. So are you saying that I can remove the ROM from the 2000 HC+8 and put it in my GVP accelerator/SCSI card? Thanks.
Barney
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If autoboot is already disabled on the HC+ and you don't have anything in SYS:Expansion, then I *think* the version command you've been running has already been reporting back the status of the SCSI ROM on the accelerator. You may not need to change anything.
Like I said before, if you want to be absolutely certain as to the SCSI version of the accelerator, just pull out the RAM card.
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Exactly.
But if you want to speed up things, do the other way: disable the SCSI from the accelerator and use the HC+8 SCSI because it is faster!
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...and I have the autoboot jumper disabled. So are you saying that I can remove the ROM from the 2000 HC+8 and put it in my GVP accelerator/SCSI card? Thanks.
If you have the Autoboot jumper set to off you basically switch off the boot-rom alltogether. I must agree with Matt_H in that the version command is now reporting your gvpscsi.device version from your G-Force combo.
You can indeed remove the rom from the HC8+ if you want; you're not using it.
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Rkauer, is the 2000 HC+8 really faster than the GVP SCSI/ACCelerator? I get approx 2000 - 2200 kb/s with my GVP accelerator but I need to check and see what I get on my 2000 HC+8.
Isn't it also true that the memory on my accelerator is much faster than my 2000 HC+8 memory? Would I be better off just removing it and use only my accelerator?
Thanks.
Barney