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- From: mwing@ksu.ksu.edu (Mitchell W. Wing)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Need help with drive for my GVP A500-HD+
- Date: 15 Feb 1996 11:07:38 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- I have a problem with a new HardDrive, or should I say my system does.
- I am running an A500 with a Mega Midget Racer 030 with 8meg 32bit ram,
- a GVP impact series II A500-HD+ with 4meg of 16bit ram and a Quantum
- LPS240S HardDrive using SCSI ID 0. The 500 has a 1.3 rom, but I am
- softkicking 2.05. The system has worked fine in this configuration for
- over one year.
-
- I just bought a used Conner 170mb HardDrive through the net. When I
- first connected it to my system it tried to boot off of it, but the
- new drive had been reformatted before it was sent and had no system
- files on it. I then booted from my gvp FaaastPrep disk, the system
- booted up until loadwb and then it said I had a read error on drive b,
- I have no drive named b. The new drive showed up as empty, but my old
- drives three partions did not appear. I tried running FaaastPrep, but
- it locked up as soon as I selected Manual installation.
-
- The next thing I did was go to a friends who has a A3000. We set up
- the same drive in the same case and fired it up. It came up fine on
- his 3000. We used HDToolBox to look at it, It was bootable so we turned
- that off because the boot priority was higher than my old drive. It used
- SCSI ID 1 and it was formatted with FFS. We than copied some files to
- and from the drive. Everything worked fine using his 3000. BTW this
- was the third drive for the 3000.
-
- I then brought it home and tried again and got similliar results. So
- I started expermenting. I found out I could boot from either drive
- but only one at a time. If both are hooked up the system will not
- boot. I have had a Sysquest 88 hooked to this system once in the past
- and had no problems then.
-
- All help will be appreciated
-
- The version of my GVPscsi.device is 4.5
-