Amiga 2000 SCSI boot probelm, any ideas?

[Zero]

This is more of an annoyance, then a problem.

I have an Amiga 2000, (Rev 6.2), with 2.0 kickstart and running Workbench 2.1.

My SCSI card is a GVP (Impact) Series II with 4mb of RAM and a 250mb SCSI hard drive.

All this works fine all the time, the only problem I get is when I attach my SCSI CD-ROM drive, it usually just refuses to boot and stays on a white screen and then after a while goes to the kickstart screen.

However, if turn it on and off a few times it boots fine and I have no more problems until I power off again, soft reboots are fine.

Done all the usual stuff and the termination etc, is fine.

Any ideas?

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[Zero]

Hi!

Thanks, I have tried the CD in the drive, that did not work, mind you my CD drawer won't open until the Amiga is on and running.

It usually boots on about the third power on!

The CD-ROM is ID 6 and the Hard Drive is ID 0.

I will have a look at the BOOTPRI

Thanks again!



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[Zero]

Hi

The GVP does not appear to have a wait/delay jumper.
Ctrl AA won't make it boot if it fails, only power on will work.

I will look at changing the ID on the CD-ROM and see if that helps.

I know everything is terminated properly and have checked on some other gear I have here.

I have read elsewhere that GVP SCSI cards can be a temperamental, and mine is a rev 1 card so...

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[Zero]

I looked at the Boot Priority and my hard drive is in two partitions DH0: and DH1: both were set at -10.
I set DH1: to -128, as it says to do on the FaaastPerp disk and it seems to have improved things, its starting first time most of the time, altough it has hung once, so I shall see how we go and also look at the great advice I have recived from you all, if it starts playing up again.

Thanks!

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[Zero]

I have version 3.12

I thought I might had sussed the problem earlier, but it still won't boot first time...

[Zero]

Fixed it!

This sounds silly, but I would turn on the CD-ROM first, (it's external), then the Amiga 2000, but that caused the problems.

Turn them on together and it works, first time almost every time.

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