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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: ftw414 on December 22, 2003, 11:38:34 PM

Title: GVP HD8+
Post by: ftw414 on December 22, 2003, 11:38:34 PM

Hmmm has a A500 with a GVP HD8+ with the OEM HD installed... Why when I connect either a 1024mb HP SCSI-2....a Quantum 540mb SCSI-2 or a IBM 2048mb SCSI-2 it just don´t show up when I run hdtoolbox it only show the OEM drive... why ???

Title: Re: GVP HD8+
Post by: patrik on December 22, 2003, 11:49:36 PM

Have you set a unique ID for each drive and terminated only the last drive on the scsi-chain?


/Patrik

Title: Re: GVP HD8+
Post by: ftw414 on December 22, 2003, 11:55:10 PM

Yep all drives has different ID´s... if I connect them to a A590 controller it has no problem with seeing the drives only on the GVP controller...

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patrik wrote:
Have you set a unique ID for each drive and terminated only the last drive on the scsi-chain?


/Patrik

Title: Re: GVP HD8+
Post by: patrik on December 23, 2003, 12:04:38 AM

And is the termination correct? Some controllers works disregarding how you terminate, but some controllers are very kinky with the termination.

(edit):

I have a IVS Grandslam controller which doesnt seem to care how I terminate or if I terminate at all, it works disregarding.


/Patrik

Title: Re: GVP HD8+
Post by: ftw414 on December 23, 2003, 12:09:11 AM

Yep no problem with the term either... have tried a prob with term then it don´t power on at all...

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patrik wrote:
And is the termination correct? Some controllers works disregarding how you terminate, but some controllers are very kinky with the termination.

(edit):

I have a IVS Grandslam controller which doesnt seem to care how I terminate or if I terminate at all, it works disregarding.


/Patrik

Title: Re: GVP HD8+
Post by: patrik on December 23, 2003, 12:43:59 AM

Ok, then it shouldnt be a problem of electrical nature.

If it is the Commodore HDToolBox you are using, you could check the tooltype settings. It has some tooltypes setting how many drive-ids it should scan etc. Is there a HDToolBox alike program supplied with the GVP btw?


/Patrik

Title: Re: GVP HD8+
Post by: ftw414 on December 23, 2003, 01:33:52 AM

No Clue has this version from my A600HD... But it´s the same version I use on the A590 and there is no problems there... I can even boot on the 2048mb IBM HD with the GVP but if I connect another drive it can see the other drive...

Title: Re: GVP HD8+
Post by: patrik on December 23, 2003, 01:52:58 AM

Try the HDToolBox equivalence on the disk supplied with the HD8+. If you dont have the disk, download it from the link below:

GVP HD8+ Disk (http://www.l8r.net/install/hard_drive_cont/gvp500hd8.dms)


/Patrik

Title: Re: GVP HD8+
Post by: ftw414 on December 23, 2003, 01:56:00 AM

Well then another thing how does I get it transfered to the Amiga afterwards ???

Title: Re: GVP HD8+
Post by: patrik on December 23, 2003, 02:13:20 AM

Now I am assuming that you are on a pc, wanting to transfer files to the amiga.

If you have Workbench 2.1 and above you will have the ability to read pc-disks right out of the box. Just mount PC0: which per default is located in the Storage/Dosdrivers/ directory. One thing to remember though is that you will probably have to use a DD-disk (720KB) as most amigas doesnt have HD-diskdrives.

If you dont have Workbench 2.1 or above you can use MSH (http://www.aminet.net/misc/emu/msh-156.lha) to read ms-dos disks, though this presents a moment 22 case as you cant transfer this program to the Amiga via disk from the pc without being able to read ms-dos disks.

If this is the case, you could transfer files via a nullmodemcable if you have any sort of terminal software on the Amiga.

When you have the file on your amiga, you can use DMS (http://www.aminet.net/util/arc/dms111.run) to unpack it onto a disk.


/Patrik