How do I set up A2000-HC+8 SCSI Card

[barney]

Hello everybody, I am having problems setting up this particular SCSI Card: GVP A2000-HC+8 SCSI Card with newest firmware (4.15).  I have an Amiga 2000 w 2630 68030 accelerator.  The only time the drive is even remotely visible is when I boot it into 68000 mode.  When I run the drive prep program it shows the drive but when I attempt to install WB3.1, the drive isn't even visible.

Even worse, if I boot into 68030 mode, the drive isn't visible no matter what I do, so installing WB3.1 is also impossible.  I must say that this SCSI card is way more complicated to set up than a simple 2091.  Does anybody have any suggestions?  I have the jumper in place for autoboot also.

Barney

[barney]

I attempted to use the GVP install disk.  When I boot my 2630 accelerator into 6800 mode, I am able to see the Hard Drive using the GVP install disk.  Only problem is that it doesn't seem to make any changes that stick.  The drive is still unaccessable and I am unable to create more than 1 partiton.  

I also tried to use HDtoolbox but that didn't work either.  Everything was grayed out and unaccessable.  I think it may be jumper setting that need to be tweaked but I cannot find the manual download anywhere on the internet and the information on the Amiga Hardware sites do not provide enough details.

Could there be a compatibility problem between the Commodore 2630 Accelerator and the GVP Scsi Card?

[barney]

My 2630 board only has 2 mbytes installed.  I have 6mb installed on the SCSI card.   Very strange but it only sees the drive in 6800 mode.

[barney]

The Ram shows up fine with the 2630 engaged or not.  The problem I am having is that I flat out cannot get the hard drive set up.  With the 2630 engaged, I cannot get the hard drive to be recognized at all.  When running the GVP setup disk, everything is grayed out.  The only visible drive is the floppy.  If I disengage the 2630 on startup, all the memory on the GVP still works fine and when running the GVP setup disk, it does see the hard drive.  This still doesn't really do me any good because when I attempt to set up the partitions, I still have no luck.
It looks to me that there is a compatibility problem with the 2630.  I will try skforty's idea and change the tooltype on the HDtoolbox to GVPSCSI.DEVICE and see if that works.

Thanks.

[barney]

Ok, I will give it a try.  Just one more question.  Is it possible to transfer my hard drive my my 2091 to the GVP A2000-HC+8 without losing data or partitions?  If I can do this, it would save me alot of work by not having to install WB, install programs, etc.

Barney

[barney]

Thanks.  I am using the same type of drive that I had hooled up to my 2091.  It is a 2.1 gb IBM SCSI 50 pin drive.  On the SCSI Cable from the card, I have it going into my HD then into my CD Rom Drive.  I have no external devices on the Card.  The little termination pads or chips (whatever they are called) are all still intact on the SCSI card itself and the external 25 pin connection shows no wear so I assume that no external terminator needs to be used.  
The drive shows up when the 2630 is deactivated on startup I just am having no luck getting it configured.  
If the 2630 is running, the memory is present on the SCSI card but the HD is not detected.  When I run Sysinfo in 6800 mode, both the GVP Memory board shows (board address $0060000) and Series 2 SCSI controller GVP (Board address $00EA0000)