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- G V P I N S T A L L A T I O N D I S K N O T E S
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- C O N T E N T S
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- A. Introduction
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- B. Files contained in the GVP drawer
- 1. Memory
- a. MemTest
- 2. SCSI
- a. GvpScsiCtrl
- b. FastPrep
- c. ExpertPrep
- 3. SystemInfo
- a. GvpInfo
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- C. Getting Help
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- A. I N T R O D U C T I O N
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- This GVP.Install disk contains a minimal Workbench 3.0 environment
- (enough to boot from). It should not be used as the main Workbench disk.
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- The GVP.Install:GVP drawer drawer contain standard utilities provided
- to help diagnose any problems that might be encountered when additional RAM
- is added, or other system components are modified. An explanation of the
- drawers and files found in the GVP drawer can be found in the next section
- of this document.
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- B. T H E G V P D R A W E R
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- This section of the document will describe the various utilities included
- on the GVP.Install disk.
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- 1. The Memory drawer
- a. MemTest - This program is actually a small script that calls a
- memory test program to allocate all of the RAM currently
- in your system (and not in use) and performs tests on it.
- These tests include writing random values to a RAM address
- and then reading it back to compare with the original value.
- If any errors occur, it will report them to the screen.
- Since it is almost impossible to detect which chip on a
- SIMM module (or even which SIMM module) is at fault when an
- error is reported, attempts should be made to slowly reduce
- the amount of RAM in the system (and the tests re-run) to
- determine where the bad RAM chip may be.
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- 2. The SCSI drawer
- a. GvpScsiCtrl - This program was written to modify the operating
- parameters of the gvpscsi.device driver while it is running; without
- requiring a reboot. It has the following template:
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- GvpScsiCtrl (option)
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- where option is one of the following:
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- -m This option will force gvpscsi.device to re-examine the SCSI
- bus and mount any cartridges inserted into removable media
- drives that were recognized when the system was booted.
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- -r This option will force gvpscsi.device to re-examine the SCSI
- bus for drives (of any type) that it did not recognize when
- the system booted (i.e. a drive that is slow to spin-up from a
- cold start).
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- -s This option is similar to the one above, except that if it
- locates a removable media device without a cartridge inserted,
- it will not return control back to the parent CLI until a
- cartridge is mounted and spun-up. (This can be RUN >NIL: in
- the startup-sequence, and then whenever a cartridge is first
- inserted into the drive, it will immediately be recognized).
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- <UnitID> (DCOFF|DCON) This option forces gvpscsi.device to recognize
- Disconnect/ReConnect requests from a device or
- tells it to ignore those requests, regardless
- of what the information in a Rigid Disk Block
- indicates. This is useful for drives that do
- not support the Disconnect/ReConnect functions,
- but do not have a Rigid Disk Block either (i.e.
- a streaming tape drive).
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- b. FastPrep - This program is the Automatic Hard Drive Prep-and-Format
- program. It has an easy-to-use Intuition (point-and-
- click) interface, and performs most of the work for you.
- Please refer to the FastPrep User's Guide for more
- information.
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- c. ExpertPrep - This program is a more advanced version of FastPrep and
- allows more control over the prepping and formatting
- operations for a hard drive. Care should be taken when
- using this program, because it allows you to change
- almost all of the parameters of the drive. While it
- does attempt to warn you when a potentially problematic
- operation is requested, it will let you proceed!
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- 3. The SystemInfo drawer
- 1. GvpInfo - This utility provides in-depth information about the
- various expansion products installed into the Amiga, CPU
- and RAM operations, and other useful information that can
- be helpful to have handy when calling GVP's Technical
- Support department for help.
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- C. C A L L I N G G V P F O R T E C H N I C A L S U P P O R T
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- GVP maintains a staff of Technical Support Representatives to answer calls
- and assist with installation and operation problems with GVP peripherals.
- The phone number is (215) 354-9495 and the fax number is (215) 337-9922.
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- Please try to have your machine in front of you when you call, and be
- ready to provide answers to questions about motherboard revision, Kickstart
- and Workbench versions, GVP product versions, etc. A little extra research
- ahead of time will make it easier for the GVP Technicians to diagnose and
- solve your particular problem.
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