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From: murakami@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: GVP controller questions
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Date: 1 Feb 89 18:17:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!murakami    Feb  1 12:17:00 1989



I have a GVP Hardcard with a Conner 3100 100-Mbyte drive that now autoboots,
and can relate a good experience in making an existing drive autoboot without
reformatting the whole disk.

Two days ago, I finally got Amiga 1.3 Kickstart ROMs via mail order.  After
installing both the Amiga and (previously received) GVP ROMs, I couldn't
wait to get the drive to autoboot, so I forged ahead and figured things out
myself (by scanning script and dumps of executables).  The following steps
worked for me, but the standard disclaimers apply and you might want to give
the nice GVP folks a call if you want the real instructions (and to drop them
a hint about providing documentation for getting an existing drive to autoboot
without throwing away all of your data).

A)	backup everything volatile (in case Murphy strikes again)
B)	install the ROMs according to the directions
C)	verify ROM installation using your old boot disk
D)	print a hardcopy of DEVS:mountlist (for disk/partition configuration)
E)	run "install.scsi:gvpscripts/GVPprepHD FFS ASKALL"
	The program already knew about the Connor 3100.  With the ASKALL
	option, it prompts for mountlist information for each partition,
	and then "preps" your drive by writing appropriate info (probably
	to track 0), creating a drive that you can now autoboot.

Notes:
1)	This assumes that you previously chose good paritions and supplied
	matching low/high track (a.k.a. cyl, CA :-( ) information.
2)	The names DH0:, DH1:, DH2:, ... are chosen by GVPprepHD.
3)	use Relabel to provide nice names for yourself and workbench display
4)	GVPprepHD would not let me use the highest track on the drive
	(775 on the Conner 3100).  I had to (carefully) copy partitions
	around using manually mounted partitions to clear the last
	partition, and then reformat it.

There are many other options to GVPprepHD, it would be nice to have the
documentation.