VXL-30 RAM contention with GVP series II HD RAM

[amigadave]

Interesting setup and problem.  I know that GVP gear has been ......... different than everything else for me in the past.  It does not seem to want to play nice with other brands of hardware, but it seems to me that your VXL shares the same problem of not wanting to cooperate with any of your other hardware either.

It can get really frustrating when you can't find a solution that works with different brands of hardware.  Amiga is supposed to be "plug & play" before that term was even invented.

Good luck finding the problem and getting it to all work together, but sounds like the system is quite usable just the way it is already.

[amigadave]

@2600
Don't forget, amiga 2000 was limited to 9mb, starting with 1mem chip ram and 8 fast ram, when you added other boards, that required to be in that space...it would just not see the other mem....
You had to add mem above the 9mb space (like the megachip adding 2mb of chip)
and accelerators that added mem above the mail space.

I am sure he knows that, the VXL is an accelerator with 32bit RAM which should not conflict with the 16bit ZorroII 8mb RAM limit.  Re-read his post and you will see that I think.

[amigadave]

Yup, both the VXL and the GVP have to share the same memory space, no way to have 8MB on both.

Hmmmm,

I remember some 030 accelerators (and 040 ones too) that had 32mb or more of RAM onboard, which would obviously not be configured within the 8mb auto-config RAM limit.  Doesn't the VXL have a greater than 8mb RAM capability like these other A2000 accelerators, or is my memory faulty and only A3000/A4000 accelerators are capable of having more than 8mb of Fast RAM?  (getting old and senile sucks!).

It's been a long time since I messed around with an A2000 w/accelerator & RAM card(s).  I have been using my A4000's, A1200 & A600 w/ACA630 and my CDTV the last few years and might be forgetting my A2000 days.  Also, my A2000 has a GVP TekMagic 060 w/128mb of Fast RAM, so I know it is not a limitation of the A2000's accelerator slot.