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From: gnn@ssibbs.UUCP (George Neville-Neil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Hard Drive Accolades
Keywords: Amiga GVP Drives Satisfaction
Message-ID: <43@ssibbs.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 88 00:50:18 GMT
Organization: Sangho's Public Access Unix, Cambridge, MA
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[Hey line eater leave this line alone!!!]

Since everyone is talking Hard Drives lately I figured I would put in
my three cents.

About a month ago I purchased a Great Valley Products hard drive controller
model 2/0 and a Seagate ST277N.  Hooking it up was easy as was installing the
software.  The manual was fairly good and if I wanted the boot disk that came
with controller could have done it for me. 

I had some problems running FFS on it though.  A call to GVP quickly remedied
this as I needed their new driver for the 277 to work correctly with FFS.  I
called their BBS and downloaded it in two or three minutes.  After this it
worked great.

While at World Of Commodre in Phila. I was able to pick up the new AutoBoot
roms from GVP.  Since I already had the 1.3 rom from CBM it was easy enough to
put these two chips into the controller.

The nicest thing happened when I booted GVP's disk.  It told me that it knew
I had an ST277N and would I like two 31 meg FFS partitions.  I said sure and
it obliged quite nicely.  I restored my data to it using QuarterBack and
have been using it ever since.  

It is great!!!!  It even autoboots FFS.  I don't need one of those stupid 
little 5 track partitions.  I am a very satisfied customer.

				George Neville-Neil

I do not work for nor have recieved any payment from Great Valley Products.
Of course if they sent me a check I wouldn't refuse it. :-)


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'Damnit Spock someone is trying		    "I'm not working this is fun.
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