Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!bsu-cs!jbwaters From: jbwaters@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (J. Brian Waters) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Interaction between GVP series II + 8 and Commodore 2090 Summary: more info Keywords: arg normal? problems Message-ID: <12519@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Date: 11 Mar 91 15:36:30 GMT References: <12512@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <19645@cbmvax.commodore.com> Organization: The Binary Bin Lines: 76 From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) In article <12512@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> jbwaters@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (J. Brian Waters) writes: >>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. >You definitely can't have an 8 Meg RAM card and a 2 Meg RAM card in the system >at the same time, you'll run out of autoconfiguration space. Right... I pulled the 2 meg board when I put in the GVP card, just wanted to establish that the 2090 worked with another memory board just fine. >up the A3000, and they all play together fine. If the GVP doesn't work with >the A2090, I would suspect there's a problem with the GVP. That doesn't mean Right... I am having more problems with the GVP see the end of the message. ---- From: stephane@Chucla.CAM.ORG (Stephane Laroche) >I had for some time a 2090a and a GVP Series II in my a2000 and everything >was running smoothly (with 2 megs on the GVP card). I didn't have a >drive installed on the GVP at that time though. I had a different problem Ok... thanks... I did not have a drive attached to the GVP card yet at the point myself. I am begining to think I happened to get a bad card. From: rbabel@babylon.rmt.sub.org (Ralph Babel) In article <19645@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: > In article <12512@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>, jbwaters@bsu-cs.bsu.edu > (J. Brian Waters) writes: > >> 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). >Just curious: How can you get the machine up and running to >perform this memory test if 50% of your Fast memory is bad >or at least doesn't work properly with the A2090 installed? >Is it only the memory test that fails or are there any real >problems? Did you perform this test on a different A2000 or >maybe also with a different memory test utility? Um... actualy since a byte of each word is bad all the memory on the GVP is unusable, and causes problems if any program tries to use it. I was able to run the memory test by not running fastmemfirst and running it out of $C00.... ram as I have a 512k chip machine. ---- Ok.... part two of this problem... and now I really do think I have a good chance of having a bad GVP card. I am waiting for a return call from GVP at the moment even. I hooked up an installed a fixed 80 Meg HD to the GVP card with no problems. I then tried to use a Sony SMO-D501 and experienced no end of problems which kept locking up the machine. A friend then brought over a Trumpcard to which we were able to hook the drive up to with no problem. We could not have the GVP in the machine at the same time as the Trumpcard though as they were not both configured for some reason. So now the GVP has had problems coexisting with the 2090 and the Trumpcard. Has anyone been able to hook up a Sony SMO-D501 with the C501 SCSI controller (for the drive) to a GVP SCSI controller? Just got a call from GVP! Nice and quick. They said to try setting a jumper on the card to 'correct' for a resister on the old 2000 MB I have. Will try it when I get home and keep my fingers crossed! Brian Waters !{iuvax|pur-ee}!bsu-cs!jbwaters -- Brian Waters !{iuvax|pur-ee}!bsu-cs!jbwaters