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From: lgulyas@ics.uci.edu (Laszlo Gulyas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A2000 HD controllers opions and or help
Keywords: HD Controllers HardDrive AutoBoot
Message-ID: <26220131.7262@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 90 15:52:17 GMT
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Reply-To: lgulyas@ics.uci.edu (Laszlo Gulyas)
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
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I own a GVP SCSI + 8 controller for the 2000, but I have the ST296N drive
It is a good controller,but at least for my drive it is not fast, but very
dependable. It autoboots fine, and has room for 8 megs of SIMMs, be careful
on the manual though, at one point it says to use 120ns or better, another
place it wants 100ns or better, and yet another place 150ns or better. I
chose 100ns chips. You must increment the memory in 2 meg increments - but
that's not really a problem (unless you don't have the money for 2 megs).

I must have an early version of the card as it is only #9 serial number wise.
But it seems OK so far. The software is easy to use if you want their default
set ups (you can change size of partitions, but to change buffer size you
must exit out and run the program with the option ASKALL). GVP is great on
tech support so they really can help you.

So overall,
	- Great value.
	- Mediocre speed on the ST296 (about 140K useing Dperf2 and interleave 1)
	- Easy to setup and maintain.

Laszlo Gulyas