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From: wuethri@unizh.UUCP (Charles Wuethrich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: GVP 40 Meg Quantum - A question...
Summary: GVP doesn t boot
Keywords: GVP, 40Meg, Questions
Message-ID: <311@unizh.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 89 18:54:16 GMT
References: <267@topsy.UUCP>
Sender: <unizh!gorgo!wuethri>
Reply-To: wuethrich@ifi.unizh.ch (Charles Wuethrich)
Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, Univ. Zuerich, Switzerland
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In article <267@topsy.UUCP> manes@topsy.UUCP writes:
>I have a question for those in the "know".
> 
>I have a 40 Meg GVP Quantum drive and after a initial failure my second card
>seems to work just great, in fact, very nicely.   the GVP, for those who
>do not know is a autobooting SCSI controller.
> 

A friend of mine has an enourmous problem with his GVP Quantum, when 
installing it on his Stock B2000 (Rev. 6 Motherboard). The facts:
GVP Quantum 40 Rev. 5 (says the label). In order to install it,
the instructions say:
         Open Amiga (...done) after it is switched off and disconnected.
         Install Quantum (which has autoboot eproms from GVP)
         Close Amiga with care (note that the jumper for the Autoboot has been)
                                carefully controlled
         Switch Amiga on.
+ result: light grey screen, grey screen, HD led blinks a couple of times
          then it stays on.... forever...... 
          the disk has been installed on the card by GVP... its SCSI ID
                                   should be alright.
         if I pull the Autoboot jumper off, and boot with the GVP install
         disk, then everything works, but the first time I try an INSTALL
         from the WB, after the first couple of questions, the same
         thing (LED continuously on) at the sentence "Now loading GVP
         HD driver" come. What did we do wrong? We are new to the machine.
   
         We had the GVP being controlled by the swiss importer, but he
         says everything works ok, he had done a low level format, and
         some tests, and the card is alright. 

Anybody has any clues? We have the HD since 3 months and we couldn t do
anything with it. Pleeeaaassseee    Any help would be appreciated. Greatly.
Is the problem on th GVP, or on the amiga (stock one, 1M, 1Disk). Do we have
to change anything on the motherboard? the importer says No. 

Thanks in advance, and....   excuse my English

                                 Charles


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