Got a GVP HC8 S2 - Need advice

[dougal]

My GVP HC8 Series II arrived today. It did not come with a hard drive but i have 2 SCSI hard drives laying around at home.

The one i intend to use is a 1GB hard drive. According to the manual the scsi terminator should be removed. Is that right ?

Any advise to make my life easier as i have never dealt with SCSI before ?

[Robert17]

Hi Dougal, I have a similar GVP SCSI Card in an Amiga 2000, it is fussy about correct termination.

The SCSI chain should look something like this:

Term, Hard disk, Controller, Term.

The GVP SCSI Card should have auto termination for the end beyond the controller, so you'll either need a terminator for after the hard disk, or set the termination jumper on on your hard disk if availabl

Hope this helps and your setup goes well, SCSI Can be a pain but works nicely if setup correctly, be patient and don't panic if it doesn't go right the first go.

Robert.

[dougal]

Thanks Robert. It was actually really easy to setup. All i did was disable the onboard terminator power of the hard drive and set the scsi id to 0 and then i ran the GVP install software and it worked first go

[Robert17]

That's good :-) Do you have any memory fitted to the board?

[dougal]

That's good :-) Do you have any memory fitted to the board?

It has 8MB