AllanWS@cup.portal.com (Allan BA Schlaugat) (03/01/91)
I have a major problem with my GVP Impact A2000-HC+2 hard drive controller card I purchased 8 months ago (ROMS: V1.0). The card will not autoboot when my new Seagate/Swift ST1239N 211 MB hard drive is set for unit 0. My older HD (a Seagate ST296N 85 MB) worked fine as a unit 0 SCSI device and autobooted flawlessly. What is even quirkier is that when the old 85 MB HD is set as unit 0 and the 211 MB is set as unit 1, the card doesn't recognize the big HD at all! A warm boot finally wakes the card up and it is recognized. Are all GVP controller cards this qirky? What must I do to make the GVP card autoboot from the 211 MB HD? The 2 ROMS on the controller card are V1.0 though I heard this problem exists with V3.x ROMS as well. Does anyone have an answer?? Thanks! Allan Schlaugat / allanws@cup.portal.com / Packet: N9ISN@W9NNS "I had a bad day today; I had to re-rivit my pizza cutter!"
neil@celia.UUCP (Neil Richmond) (03/05/91)
In article <39666@cup.portal.com> AllanWS@cup.portal.com (Allan BA Schlaugat) writes:
.The card will not autoboot when my new Seagate/Swift ST1239N
.211 MB hard drive is set for unit 0. My older HD (a Seagate
.ST296N 85 MB) worked fine as a unit 0 SCSI device and autobooted
.flawlessly. What is even quirkier is that when the old 85 MB HD
.is set as unit 0 and the 211 MB is set as unit 1, the card
.doesn't recognize the big HD at all! A warm boot finally wakes
.the card up and it is recognized.
.Allan Schlaugat / allanws@cup.portal.com / Packet: N9ISN@W9NNS
What do you mean unit 0? Is this a GVP designation? As I recall, unit 0 and
unit 1 are reserved by the Amiga system as ST-506 devices. The first SCSI
unit, is unit 2. I don't have a GVP board yet, but I was planning to upgrade
from my A2090 to one. I use a Centaur Auto boot card now to boot from my
hard disk. It's great, except it uses another slot.
neil
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