manes@topsy.UUCP (Mark D. Manes) (11/27/89)
I have a question for those in the "know". I have a 40 Meg GVP Quantum drive and after a initial failure my second card seems to work just great, in fact, very nicely. The GVP, for those who do not know is a autobooting SCSI controller. Here is the question, recently I upgraded the memory from 1 megabyte on my 2000 to 3 Megabytes. (I bought a used 2052 card - cheap!). I want the GVP to use Fast memory to for its buffers (and boy does it like memory), Does this mean that I need ro re-install the software on the hard disk? Hold it, don't say you simply change the mountlist as I don't believe the mountlist is used by the autoboot code. Am I wrong? If I am wrong, this would bring me to the second question as to how when I boot from floppy I can access the hard disk as if I had booted from it? The answer must be that there is a special area on the hard disk that the mountlist is copied to when the software is installed.' I guess I could call GVP, but I thought I would let you guys talk to me, in case I mis-understood. -mark= PS - I guess the FastFileSystem is also copied to this area of the disk as well.
liberato@drivax.UUCP (Jimmy Liberato) (11/29/89)
manes@topsy.UUCP (Mark D. Manes) writes: >Here is the question, recently I upgraded the memory from 1 megabyte on my >2000 to 3 Megabytes. (I bought a used 2052 card - cheap!). I want the >GVP to use Fast memory to for its buffers (and boy does it like memory), >Does this mean that I need ro re-install the software on the hard disk? >Hold it, don't say you simply change the mountlist as I don't believe >the mountlist is used by the autoboot code. Am I wrong? > >If I am wrong, this would bring me to the second question as to how when >I boot from floppy I can access the hard disk as if I had booted from it? >The answer must be that there is a special area on the hard disk that the >mountlist is copied to when the software is installed.' Yes, you are right. The normal Devs/Mountlist is not used. There is a special "Rigid DisK Block" (or something like that) section on the hard disk itself that contains the mountlist information. That way you don't need a special boot partition. GVP was first to market a controller that did this. I think Microbotics is also doing it now. Any others? If you look at GVPprepHD (type ... opt h) you will see some undocumented parameters. The one you need to use is the ASKALL one. As good as the GVP autoinstall scripts are they tend to obscure things for the knowlege- able user. Make sure you write out the mountlist specs (there should be a copy in the GVPscripts directory of your hard disk). Then, booting from the GVP floppy open a CLI and then enter the directory where GVPprepHD resides and type "GVPprepHD ? ASKALL UNDOS" (no quotes). Then just change the mountlist specs you want. Of course you can't change the size and partition information without causing a disaster. I think the BUFMEMTYPE you want is either 4 or 5 (I don't think it makes any difference). I suggest you increase the default buffer size also since you have memory to burn now. You can also edit the installation script XinstallHD to include the ASKALL parameter (manual instead of automatic installation). I've done this often but, of course, do have a fresh backup available. :-) Good Luck! -- Jimmy Liberato ...!amdahl!drivax!liberato
wuethri@unizh.UUCP (Charles Wuethrich) (11/29/89)
In article <267@topsy.UUCP> manes@topsy.UUCP writes: >I have a question for those in the "know". > >I have a 40 Meg GVP Quantum drive and after a initial failure my second card >seems to work just great, in fact, very nicely. the GVP, for those who >do not know is a autobooting SCSI controller. > A friend of mine has an enourmous problem with his GVP Quantum, when installing it on his Stock B2000 (Rev. 6 Motherboard). The facts: GVP Quantum 40 Rev. 5 (says the label). In order to install it, the instructions say: Open Amiga (...done) after it is switched off and disconnected. Install Quantum (which has autoboot eproms from GVP) Close Amiga with care (note that the jumper for the Autoboot has been) carefully controlled Switch Amiga on. + result: light grey screen, grey screen, HD led blinks a couple of times then it stays on.... forever...... the disk has been installed on the card by GVP... its SCSI ID should be alright. if I pull the Autoboot jumper off, and boot with the GVP install disk, then everything works, but the first time I try an INSTALL from the WB, after the first couple of questions, the same thing (LED continuously on) at the sentence "Now loading GVP HD driver" come. What did we do wrong? We are new to the machine. We had the GVP being controlled by the swiss importer, but he says everything works ok, he had done a low level format, and some tests, and the card is alright. Anybody has any clues? We have the HD since 3 months and we couldn t do anything with it. Pleeeaaassseee Any help would be appreciated. Greatly. Is the problem on th GVP, or on the amiga (stock one, 1M, 1Disk). Do we have to change anything on the motherboard? the importer says No. Thanks in advance, and.... excuse my English Charles -- Charles Wuethrich, Dept. of Computer Science | wuethrich@ifi.unizh.ch Univ. of Zurich, 8057 Zurich-Irchel, Switzerland | k114910@czhrzu1a.bitnet