a774@mindlink.UUCP (Wayde Police) (10/17/89)
I recently purchased a GVP 2 Meg + SCSI controller board for my Amiga 2000. I
believe the Hard drive I am now using is a Seagate 157N (SCSI 3.5") and have
the autoboot ROMs installed as well as 1.3 kickstart. I am very pleased with
the card on the whole, but since installing it I have had a couple of problems.
1. A program called GVPmem included with the controller card seems to be made
to check the installed ram. There is no information included about this utility
(and a few of the others) and I can't get it work anyhow. I have disabled all
fast ram, tried checking smaller ranges, etc, but this program always crashes
my system. Does anyone know about this utility, or can you suggest an
alternative to check the added ram?
2. Since I installed the GVP autobooting hard drive, I cannot reliably run
scripts from the 1.3 Shell. Most times the system will bring up a Read/Write
error requestor for the SYS: partition, however, if I execute the same script
everything works great. Other times the system will freeze, or guru. Could I
have missed something when setting up the SYS: partition (some stack,
assignment, etc). I have tried to set everything up as the 1.3 manual suggests.
Could this be a bad ram chip problem? or should I get WB1.3.2?
Thanks in advance.
W.V.Police