IV24 from GVP…
12-Jul-92 14:38:05
Sb: #20502-IV24 from GVP…
Fm: Black Belt Systems 76004,1771
To: Jim Saklad 72017,355
I'm talking about the G-Force boards, specifically the 50 mhz board. It was
a nightmare to try and get working.
I just read Lou's article about the 3000t in AW, though, and he rated the
installation "easy". All I can say about that is he must have gotten a
different board than we did.
The 50 mhz board we had was a veritable forest of jumpers, some not
documented, some poorly documented, and some documented plain _wrong_. The
SCSI formatting software crashed constantly, and the boards operation in
general was never reliable. We could never get the memory to configure as
documented (probably a jumper issue there, but it was never solved).
Since putting the RCS 040 in there, (a) we've not had a lick of trouble,
(b) there were NO installation problems or jumpers, (c) we have more
memory, (d) it runs a good bit faster than the GVP, (e) we saved several
hundred dollars.
I wouldn't get one of those combos for anything.
–Ben