A2000 Formatted HELP!

[Wain]

Did some searching for info on Trumpcard Pro, and all I could come up with was this...

"when booting from floppy disk, the hard disk is not mounted automatically in order to prevent virus infection - but pressing the left mouse button during startup forces the HD to be mounted"

Could this be part of the problem???  If the drive's formatted, but not mounted you're not gonna' see it.

Will keep looking for you.   :-D

[Wain]

IVS' drivers can be downloaded from here, they're in DMS format, and the site's in German but it should still work.

http://www.planetmulti.de/TreiberSektor/IVS/ivs.html

That is assuming you have an IVS card, for some reason I keep thinking you said somewhere the you have an IVS trumpcard controller, but I'm not seeing it anywhere in the previous messages.  If I'm wrong just ignore me and I'll eventually shut up and go away  
 ;-)

[Wain]

IVS is the manufacturer of the Trumpcard and Trumcard professional SCSI controllers.  I'm not sure if this is the same as what you are saying is "Trump Pro" or not, but I'm not seeing anything else with a name like that in the big book of amiga hardware.

[Wain]

Okay, from what I've gathered (mind you it's been a LONG time since I've used an Amiga), it looks like you're having problems because you're trying to load the drivers for the GVP accelerator, which it can't find because you formatted your hard drive.

Hitting the left-mouse button during your bootup disabled the GVP accelerator and rebooted your system under the original 68000 CPU.

If your harddrive is coming up as 'Untitled' I can only assume that means that it's both mounted and formatted, and now just needs Workbench installed on it, and then your GVP software.  I however have absolutely no memory of how to do this, you might want to check the earlier advice some people have given in this thread.

It sounds like the hard drive is prepared, it just needs to have workbench copied over to it, probably some kind of copy sys: command or something.  After that, you're going to want to install the GVP software again.


mind you I could be really wrong.