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- From: ja@oasis.icl.co.uk (James Allen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: GVPscsi.device
- Date: 5 Mar 1996 12:33:37 GMT
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- Joseph Waldvogel (joewald@crl.com) wrote:
-
- : >Again, I ask: Is anyone else using SS and a GVPscsi.device??
-
- : >I have a GVP A1230 accelerator with the GVP A1291 scsi adapter.
-
- : >I get a disk error (tyoe 39) when I try to run a prog from my Zip disk
- : >which is my GVPscsi.device unit #5.
-
- : >My CDROM id unit #6, but I haven't tried to use it yet.
-
- : >Also, what's the best way to read a mac floppy?
-
- : >Thanks for any advice.
-
- : >Syee
-
- : I have the Same GVP A1291 SCSI Controler in my A1200, and I could NEVER get
- : the thing to work right with a Partition. Using a FileDevice worked OK
- : though, but it's just soooo Much slower the then Partiton. I could Never get
- : the system 7.5 to Install, it woukd just Abort when it went to write. I could
- : copy files over to it, and sometimes then would loadup OK, and othertimes it
- : would just crash. Tryed copying the system over to it, but it still wouldn't
- : Bootup from it. I have since bought a larger 2.5" IDE drive to use the
- : scsi.device driver and it works great now. I havn't tryed using my TapeDrive
- : YET! But I had NO luck on either of my SCSI drives, Ones a Maxtor, the other
- : a Microwhatever, No go on either. I thought about getting a CD-ROM drive to
- : use with Shapeshifter and the Amiga, but I'm pretty sure it just won't woth
- : with this freeken GVP SCSI Controler.
- Well I use SS with my GVP SCSI controler and it works fine. I do use an
- Apple CD300 external CDROM though which is obvoisuly going to be
- a lot more compatible with SS than certain other drives, but it still
- works flawlessley with the GVP controler. I do sometimes get requestors
- popping up on the Amiga side stating that SS cant allocate a SCSI read
- buffer but things still continue regardless. I presume this is due to
- having low memory on the Mac side...
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