Guru ROM for A2000 & GVP 040?

[KatManDEW]

Anyone know where I can get an updated BIOS for my A2000 GVP 040? ("Guru ROM"?)

I have a 50 gig hard drive in my A2000, and I can't get it to use over 4 meg of the drive, even with OS 3.9. HDToolBox sees all of the drive and partitions it, but only 4 gig of it will show up in Workbench.

I tried fixhdsize from Aminet, and it says the drive is setup and working properly...

[Thomas]

If you are able to write your own EPROMs, you can download the images from here: http://babel.de/amiga.html#omni

Otherwise you probably have to find somebody who sells it second-hand.

Bye,
Thomas

[countzero]

you can't just write the guru rom. you need the oh-so-special adapter which you can't find anywhere ...

go for latest gvp rom (4.15) it should help things a little.

[KatManDEW]

In the "old days" (when I was younger), I could have made one of those adapter boards. But my PCB chemicals are ancient, I wouldn't want to re-leard the process, and my eyes aren't as good and my hands aren't as steady, so I ordered the 4.15 ROM.

Thanks for the help!

[CLS2086]

Last seen on EPay GuruRom 6.11 and adapter : $99

[KatManDEW]

What does the GuruRom offer versus the 4.15 ROM?

I couldn't find GuruRom 6.11 on EBay.

CLS2086 wrote:
Last seen on EPay GuruRom 6.11 and adapter : $99

[save2600]

I have a GVP ROM version 4.15 sitting in my 030 accelerator card that nobody seems to want at a decent price. I guess I could slap the older ROM back in it.

Boy, I know it's wiser to sell cards out of computers, but removing chips now? lol  Shame this stuff seems to be worth little complete. Piece by piece, component by component is obviously where its at  ;-)  

[nishtek]

I used to own GForce 040 card.  excellent card.  never had issues prepping drives.  You should partition the drive using gvp tool, then as a test install os 3.1 to one of its partitions.  Then from there do 3.9 to another partition.
I send you a pm.

edit: actually all gvp cards are really good.  never had problems with any of them.

[nishtek]

@save2600

So true.  Folks rather buy a "unknown card" and spend less money.  Then they come here and expect miracles in getting "nonworking" cards to work.  Personally, that card with all 3 sockets full of memory (total of 13mb) is worth $160-180.  GVP Simms cost $25-30 per 4 mb.  Suggested pricing, imho:
GVP 030 by itself with 1mb RAM/SCSI connector : $90
GVP RAM 4mb each $25
cost: 90+(3x25)=165$.  
You're trying to sell a card right now with no ram for $120, kind high some may think? (plus its a pain finding ram for it).
Why not add all RAM, have it tested, and list starting bid for $150/160?? (fully populated with RAM).  someone will go for it.  $160 for 68030 isn't bad.  Thats also why $600+ for 68060 is almost expected, same as $200+ for 68040.  Anyone getting it for less is lucky.
 :-D

[countzero]

KatManDEW wrote:
In the "old days" (when I was younger), I could have made one of those adapter boards. But my PCB chemicals are ancient, I wouldn't want to re-leard the process, and my eyes aren't as good and my hands aren't as steady, so I ordered the 4.15 ROM.

Thanks for the help!

Guru ROM adapter is not just a passive PCB. There's a GAL mounted, which probably does somekind of bank switching.

[KatManDEW]

I've tried everything that I can find, and I can't get my GVP Geforce 040 SCSI controller to see anything past 4 gig. I've blown away the partitions trying different things, and reinstalled OS 3.9 so many time in the past couple weeks, that I can install OS 3.9 in my sleep.

Is there any chance of finding a Guru-ROM anywhere?

[nishtek]

I doubt the GuruRom will address this install issue.  Both GVP and Guru predate the larger capacity hard disks.

[zipper]

, and reinstalled OS 3.9 so many time in the past couple weeks, that I can install OS 3.9 in my sleep.

Have you activated the line in Amigaos Rom update (or something like) file according to your scsi device?

[gertsy]

KatManDEW. Have you though of getting a Buddha. I'm not trying to be a smart a*s. It's faster, and IDE drives just make life so much easier. IDE Cloning is a handy DR backup.
But they are somewhat hard to find.

Amigakit recon they have buddha in stock at 44pounds uk.

[alexh]

gertsy wrote:
Have you though of getting a Buddha. [snip] It's faster

No it isn't and it uses much more CPU.

gertsy wrote:
and IDE drives just make life so much easier.

Cannot argue there. An ACARD AEC-7720U ($30) is a must have for any Amiga SCSI owner.

gertsy wrote:
Amigakit recon they have buddha in stock at 44pounds uk.

Not too bad a price. I'd still recommend getting an IDE->SCSI adapter and a GURU ROM if you can find one (although do not pay the earth for one!)