Any old SCSI hard drive will do?

[apsteinmetz]

Amiga 2000 restoration project.   The GVP 2000-030 accelerator and RAM works but the HD controller apparently does not.  (ROMs?).  I also have a GVP 2000-HD SCSI card.*  It is currently hooked to a Ricoh MO drive.  The GVP FaaastPrep utility sees the MO drive but the disk itself seems to be toast.  I'm going to say the controller works.  The card does have autoboot ROMs.  I would like to try to put a different SCSI HD on the controller.

What should I look for in a SCSI drive?  What interface?  Is 4GB the max capacity?  I see some folks have CF SCSI interfaces.Would something like this work?

Microtech PCD-25BH, Internal SCSI PCMCIA Card Reader/Writer

If so, can it be set to be the boot drive?

Thanks for filling in any of the blanks on this (long) list of questions!

*While the Big Book calls the model 2000-HC, my PCB is labeled 2000-HD.

[apsteinmetz]

These are tremendous responses and great resources!  Thanks!

As to the GVP ROM version I have 3.07, not 4.15 so where does that leave me?  Can I still use a card reader?

Photo of card below (don't know why image won't appear inline - is it because https?)

https://goo.gl/photos/UutWJAPeVVUA1HAZA

BTW, I was wrong when I said the model number was 2000-HD.  As the PCB shows, it says 2000-HC.  I'm sure in 1988 I could read that just fine

[apsteinmetz]

Just to close the loop on this thread, I got the Microtech card reader and plugged it in.  I just works!  Autoboots my 2.04 WB CF just fine.  I am using the GVP 3.07 boot ROM.

I will say creating the 4GB CF WB environment in WinUAE was a pain, due to my blundering through any number of false starts.  The various online tutorials and YouTube videos were absolutely necessary but no single one had the complete solution for me.

I'll highlight one particular issue.  All the guides I saw say to select either IDE or A600/A1200/A4000 as the HD interface for the card reader.  The only one that worked for me was "UAE"  By "worked" I mean created a SCSI hard disk visible to HDToolBox.

Anyway, all good now.  Awaiting 3.1 ROM from AmigaKit and coin battery.  I tried to gingerly pry out the barrel battery and the mount just snapped off at both ends.  Much corrosion of the mount but no damage elsewhere, obviously (since it runs).  But that's a story for another thread.

Thanks for the spot-on help!