SCSI DRIVE COMPATIBILITY

[Framiga]

. . . .Doomy!!. . . please!!!. .. "biricchino"!!!

If you aren't DoomMaster, i'll eats one of my ball, tomorrow early in the morning . . .i swear.

Ciao

 

[iamaboringperson]

FlagshipAmigaLover wrote:
Hi Dave,

I do not recommend any of the "combo" controllers, especially the GVP controller.  People are always having problems with the combo boards.  The Commodore A2091 SCSI controller would be your best bet.  The Amiga 2000 uses the same SCSI hard drives as the older Macintoshes did.  You should be able to find lots of the older Macs at you local Goodwill for less then $20.00 each.  If you are using Workbench 3.1 or lower, then you can not use a hard drive larger then 4 gigs.  If you are using Workbench 3.5 or 3.9 then you can use hard drives larger then 4 gigs.  NEW 1 and 2 Gig SCSI hard drives are readily available on eBay often.  I see them all the time and have even bought a few to keep as spares.     :-D

That is DoomMaster

[QuikSanz]

Hi,

Am getting tired of hearing bad stuff about GVP equiptment. I have 2 gvp combo cards, An 030 and 060 and have never had any problems..
Both are maxed w/ ram. HD's, CDROM and CDRW have worked fine. Even AmigaU uses a GVP 060 on their server and Mike has no probs either.
Give it a rest.

Chris

[FlagshipAmigaLover]

Hi Chris,

Sorry if I offended you.  I just noticed that a lot of forums deal with people having problems with the GVP boards.  You either lucked out or you know what you are doing.     :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D

[Framiga]

Hi QuikSanz

don't worry about GVP products, QuikSanz :-)

I'm still using a GVP-TBCPus card (one of my best buy EVER) from 10 years without problems.

Quite all the video signal (exept the YUV one) pass through those card in my video gears.

GVP anf P5, has been the best cards in the Amiga market for years.

The only problem, was (and still) theese "custom" SIMMs for the CPU cards and . . .GRRRR!!!! the custom VRAM of my TBC+ card (1 MB-30 ns, 68 pins payed 9 years ago, 220 EUR (=Lire.450000 from USA to here in Italy)

By the way . . .the first VRAM delivered from USA was defective and GVP has replaced it without any problem . . . great Company :-) (thanks to my friend Casonato-Logica too)

Ciao

 

[Erwin-K]

At work I have a revision 4.2 A2000 (German made MB) that the agency has been using since 1987. A few years ago we got a GVP-M 2060 combo board.

That board takes both the GVP 64 pin simms & -standard- 72 pin simms. I have 128MB of ram, a 68060 @ 50MHZ and a four gig (Qunatum, I think) hard drive connected to it. Everything works fine.

The machine also has a Video Toaster 4000, a Hydra ethernet card and a Catweasel V2 card. My only problem is that one of my multi-sync monitors died & I can't get a Toaster compatible scan-doubler.

(BTW, if you do go scrounging thru old Mac's you might get a surprise. One or two models used 64 pin simms. Sorry they are not compatible with GVP cards. However I did upgrade my GVP 030 board from 25 to 40MHZ with Mac parts.)

[Cyberus]

Erwin-K?
Aren't they Rommel's names?