New hard drive for an A2000.

[KapitanKlystron]

I have got an 1 gB hard drive for my A2000. It's a Fujitsu SCSI.  I have a GVP 030 accelerator and 2.04 roms in the computer. WIll I be able to use it or will I have to upgrade some other stuff 1st?

[redrumloa]

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but if it's a 50pin scsi it SHOULD work A-OK out of the box. I'm assuming you have a reasonable scsi card, you didn't mention.

[KapitanKlystron]

The accelerator is also a SCSI card. The hard drive thats in there is a 52mB Quantum 50 pin drive.

[redrumloa]

KapitanKlystron wrote:
The accelerator is also a SCSI card. The hard drive thats in there is a 52mB Quantum 50 pin drive.

Ok, still not much info:-) It's probably a C= A2091 SCSI board I'd guess, they were common in A2000s. But still AFAIK all known Zorro SCSI cards should be able to handle a 1Gig HD. Check to make sure the terminator is in place on the drive.

[KapitanKlystron]

Thanks for the help.  I hope to put it in over the weekend. I haven't set a hard drive for an amiga or actually ever done a SCSI drive. So it might get interesting. The card is a GVP combo accelerator 22mHz 030/memory/scsi  card . It is old like the computer but it beats the A1000 and A500 I also have. :-D

[redrumloa]

The card is a GVP combo accelerator 22mHz 030/memory/scsi card .

OOOH! I see the SCSI is on the GVP accelerator! I didn't get that the first time around :-D  I thought you meant it was on a separate card.

Try it out, don't frustrated. If you hit a snag come back here and ask. You may need the original install/utility disks that came with your GVP accelerator. It should have some kind of HD utility for partitioning, initializing etc.

[Desmon]

After reading the rest of your posts, I'll assume you at least have GVP's Faaastprep utility on hand. It's simple to use and does a little more than HDToolBox does.

If you don't have that, find a copy of HDToolBox on your original disks and either change the scsi.device tooltype to gvpscsi.device or start HDToolBox from a command line with gvpscsi.device as a parameter.

IE:> hdtoolbox gvpscsi.device

should do the trick.

[vortexau]

Actually, you should be able to install a SCSI CD-ROM into the 5¼" tray also; that is (of course) if there is not such there already!

The difficulty is that the Floppy-Drive shelf has to come off to reach that.

Don't forget that there will be a DB25 on the rear of the Combo on which to attach an external SCSI chain.

[KapitanKlystron]

@Desmon:

Yep I 've got the GVP Utility and my copy of WB 2.04 waiting for me to try it  this weekend.

@all

Thanks for all the help. :-D

[ShadesOfGrey]

In case you're interested, you may find updated versions of the GVP hard drive prep tools at the GVP-M website.