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- From: tomryan@uta.edu (Thomas Ryan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: GVP SCSI Controller info needed
- Date: 22 Jan 1996 18:10:16 GMT
- Organization: University of Texas Arlington
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- As a number of us have, I bought a used Amiga 2000 which came without
- documentation for it or for any of the installed hardware. The
- documentation did not seem crucial since I had other Amigas, but now I
- have a problem.
-
- The A2000 came with a GVP SCSI controller. The VERSION command tells
- me that the gvpscsi.device is version 3.7. The controller card itself
- is stamped with "Impact A-2000-HC Rev. 5." (I wish when I had the card out
- that I copied down the numbers of the chips and other components.)
-
- I have been trying unsuccessfully to get an external Reno 2x CD-ROM
- to work. I have tried AmiCDRom, AmiCDFS, and the CD-ROM driver that
- was included in my 3.1 OS. Can someone tell me
-
- a) if gvpscsi.device version 3.7 is capable of dealing with
- external CD-ROM drives;
-
- b) if it isn't and I do need a new ROM for the controller (at
- least), whether I have a Series I or Series II GVP controller.
- If my board is a Series II I can presumably get the GURU-ROM.
- If I have a Series I card, will the 4.xx versions of the
- GVP ROMs I occasionally see advertised work (and handle a
- CD-ROM drive)?
-
- Thanks in advance for any help. If the 3.7 version of the gvpscsi.device
- should work with CD-ROM drives, I'll buy the ASIM CD software and try it,
- I guess.
-
- Tom
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