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From: jbwaters@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (J. Brian Waters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Interaction between GVP series II + 8 and Commodore 2090
Keywords: arg normal?  problems
Message-ID: <12512@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 91 14:05:53 GMT
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After running with a st506 drive and a 2090 for a couple of years I needed
to add more storage.  I wound up with an 80 Meg SCSI drive and quickly ran
into problems with the 2090 controller and overscan etc.  I decided to go ahead
and get a new controller and bought the GVP card.  I was hoping to borrow a
drive and have both controllers in the machine while I copy files from the
drives attached to the 2090 to the GVP then pull the 2090 out.

Right now I have a 8-up DIP board with 2 megs installed as well.  I have 8
megs of SIMMS on the GVP card and pulled out the 8-up and installed the
GVP card.  The GVP fails though on the memory test and gets every other byte in
the word wrong (high byte fails,  low byte ok,  then high byte ok,  low byte
fails).  The GVP card works fine when I have the 2090 pulled out of the machine
though.

Is this normal?  Should I be worried that the GVP card will interfere with
other cards in the future.  Is the 2090 messed up?


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Brian Waters              <backbone>!{iuvax|pur-ee}!bsu-cs!jbwaters