Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: GVP G-Force 030 + SCSI HDD + SCSI CD?  (Read 1975 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline LuigiThirtyTopic starter

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Join Date: Nov 2016
  • Posts: 20
    • Show all replies
GVP G-Force 030 + SCSI HDD + SCSI CD?
« on: November 07, 2016, 12:14:40 AM »
I just got my first Amiga, an Amiga 2000 with a GVP G-Force 030 accelerator. It came with a hard drive connected to the SCSI controller via a 68-pin to 50-pin adapter. I've got a few SCSI CD-ROM drives (an AppleCD 600 and an old 8x OEM CD burner) sitting around that would be helpful for loading Protracker sample disks. Tried to hook them up to the other plug on the SCSI cable but couldn't get any of them to work.

 I tried connecting them adapter - HD - CD and adapter - CD - HD. The adapter is ID 7, the HD is ID 0, and the CDs I set to ID 3. All that would happen is the hard drive light would be stuck on full after it spun up and the computer wouldn't boot. It's been forever since I had to set up any SCSI devices, and those were in Macs. What else should I be looking at?
 

Offline LuigiThirtyTopic starter

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Join Date: Nov 2016
  • Posts: 20
    • Show all replies
Re: GVP G-Force 030 + SCSI HDD + SCSI CD?
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2016, 04:38:56 AM »
I figured it was something like that, I'll play with it some more. Do you remember if I need to provide termination power or does the GForce do it on the adapter end? I can't find the 030 manual, just the 040 manual.
 

Offline LuigiThirtyTopic starter

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Join Date: Nov 2016
  • Posts: 20
    • Show all replies
Re: GVP G-Force 030 + SCSI HDD + SCSI CD?
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2016, 05:02:07 AM »
Might as well ask this while I'm here, what's the best way to upgrade my A2000 to 2MB of chip RAM? I've got an Indivision ECS and a Fat Agnus.
 

Offline LuigiThirtyTopic starter

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Join Date: Nov 2016
  • Posts: 20
    • Show all replies
Re: GVP G-Force 030 + SCSI HDD + SCSI CD?
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2016, 09:43:30 PM »
My problem was the 68-pin adapter. The hard drive died not long after I bought the machine and I replaced it with a SCSI2SD - my CD burner works perfectly now.

And just to be sure, I can drop in a full 68030 as long as it's rated for 40MHz or higher right? I'm doing assembly programming and I really want to use Enforcer. I found some authentic CPUs locally from a reseller but want to make sure I won't blow anything up by doing it. This board was expensive and my expertise is in 1990s Mac hardware, not Amiga.
« Last Edit: December 01, 2016, 09:46:31 PM by LuigiThirty »