IDE port on GVP A3001

[Unit01]

Hi  DamageX,

I have heard somewhere that the drive interface is 8bit I/O instead of 16bit. I don't know if modern drives are back compatible.

I have one of these boards myself I think the earlyest version so I wouldn't mind getting a IDE drive working too.

BTW do you have more than 8 meg working on your board and does it need some special memory? Cause I pulled off some mem from my GVP combo 30pin Fast Page RAM put it in and it shows it up in workbench and you can copy stuff to the ram disk until it's full but the BBoAH said it uses special Nibble Mode Ram or something.

Also I have a 68030 and 68882 with 50 written on them however when I put a 50 Mhz Oscillator in no boot. It current runs at 25Mhz. Do you know if it's possible to run the board at 50Mhz or is the circuity not fast enough?


Regards
John

[Unit01]

Thank you kindly for the information DamageX, Iopower.

I've pretty sure the technician tried 33Mhz and it didn't work  
however I hope to try using the motherboard master oscillator one of these days just for kicks (28Mhz). :lol:

I must admit we didn't have much info on the jumpers I think he managed to get the board to register 8 MB. I read somewhere  it supposed to go upto 12 Meg on the early version.

Regards
John