Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!ucsd!nosc!crash!pro-graphics.cts.com!johns From: johns@pro-graphics.cts.com (John Silvia) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: GVP Impact Series II problems... Message-ID: <6721@crash.cts.com> Date: 6 Jan 91 04:41:54 GMT Sender: root@crash.cts.com Lines: 39 Now get this: A2000 with 1 meg chip, Commodore 68030 board (@25mhz) with 2 megs 32 bit ram. I recently bought the GVP Series II Impact Hard Disk controller, and when I sold my 2 meg 8up! board that had 2 megs on it, I started getting the following error during the hardware powerup and diagnostics: GVPSCSI.DEVICE UNIT 000 Unexpected Error: $1E/$46 The board is connected to a Quantum Prodrive 50meg drive (the newest of their 50 meg drives too) and also to a Miniscribe 8425 that was borrowed froma defective Mac SE (waste of good hardware too!). Anyway, the setup worked fine before when I had 5 megs of ram (2x32bit,2x16bit,1 chip). I called GVP, and when I finally called and didn't get their phonemail system and got a human, I explained the problem, and the guy told me that more than likely, the memory on my 030 board is detected by the GVP board, and the GVP board is trying to load it's firmware into 32bit ram to run faster, and the guy claims that the problem isn't in their board, but instead, in my Commodore 2630 board (030 accelerator) since it's not making the ram available soon enough for the GVP hardware to use it. Does anyone out there know about this problem, and maybe have a cure? The guy suggested moving the board as far from the accelerator as possible, so that the timing cycles might possibly be extended a cycle or two to fix the problem. I really don't like the idea of having to buy 2 megs of simms to make my system bootup properly. -- John Silvia Pro-Graphics BBS 908/469-0049 "It's better than a sharp stick in the eye!" Internet: johns@pro-graphics.cts.com UUCP: crash!pro-graphics!johns ARPA: crash!pro-graphics!johns@nosc.mil