A2000 Questions

[bjjones37]

I just acquired an A2000 with a hard drive screwed onto a card in a slot. It appears to be a 60M Seagate 157N. When I go to HDToolBox, no drives show up at all and all of the options are greyed out.  But it boots off the drive just fine and a second hard drive on the chain works okay too.  Can I put a 1G in the place of the drive on the card and how would I partition it?  And how come no drives show up in HDToolBox?

Nice A2000 box.  Came with a 68020+68881 processor card. Kickstart is 37.175.

[Zac67]

Which kind of controller card? You might need to set the device name in HDToolBox: http://www.pcguru.plus.com/uae_hdtoolbox.html

[bjjones37]

Which kind of controller card? You might need to set the device name in HDToolBox: http://www.pcguru.plus.com/uae_hdtoolbox.html

I tried this like you suggested but HDToolBox still says "Driver Not Installed".

 But the hard drives are still working.

[scuzzb494]

Zac67 gave you the link to check the settings for the HDToolbox. The TOOL can be customised to scan for certain drives and or devices. The tool is probably the default for the Workbench, but not necessarily the one that set up the hard drive. So if you check the HD Toolbox as suggested you can see what the tool is scanning for and or recognising. Don't forget that the Toolbox is just a TOOL.

Also find out what the card is... ie a GVP and that could help you link to say The Big Book of Hardware or the German equiv and get more information on the card and its jumpers etc and limitations. Personally if you can work with what you have on the card I wouldn't mess with it.

[JimS]

If it's not a Commodore  controller card, look around on your workbench for the configuration program used for that card.

[bjjones37]

If it's not a Commodore  controller card, look around on your workbench for the configuration program program used for that card.

It turns out it is an IVS Grandslam (or Trumpcard 2000 Pro - same thing).  It has the driver in BIOS on the card and HDToolBox cannot see it.  I found a DMS image online with the utilities for the card.  It has 4MB RAM on the SCSI card with room for 4 more. What I really need to know at this point is what size Hard Drive can this card support.  Have not found that info yet.  For now I have a 1GB mounted in it, but I could put an 18GB if it will support it.

[Ral-Clan]

You need to find out what scsi.device the trumpcard uses and then change the tooltype in HDTools from "scsi.device" to whatever device the trumpcard uses: i.e. "ivsscsi.device" (that's just an example - I don't know what the IVS scsi device is actually called.

Until you do that HDTools will not be able to "see" the IVS Trumpcard.

[JimS]

What I really need to know at this point is what size Hard Drive can this card support.  Have not found that info yet.  For now I have a 1GB mounted in it, but I could put an 18GB if it will support it.

Ah... that I can't answer. I know there are ways around the 4GB limit imposed by AmigaDOS itself. But the firmware on the card might have it's own limit. For example, the 2091 in my 2000 has older ROMs and cannot deal with drives bigger than 1GB.