#GVP Software bugs
I've come across a couple of bugs in GVP software.
1) attempts to:
copy <ascii_file> TO GVPPAR0:
generate an error message, "object not found"
2) attempts to:
copy <ascii_file> TO GVPSER0:
generate an error message, "object not found"
3) the gvpscsi.device that is with the 4.12 and 4.13 ROMS seems prone
to lock-up if you have multiple processes trying to access the same
disk (not necessarily the same partition). This appears anly whent
the system is running 3 or 4 process that each transfer large blocks
of data to/from the disk. Usually it happens when an attempt is made
to open another application from workbench off a ToolManager dock
where the application resides on the disk being written to by the
other process(es). The lock-up manifests as a Hard drive light that
stays on, and the keyboard, mouse and remote access via ParNET are
all locked out. The screen also does not update.
This happens on one system with GVP Combo '030 33 Mhz, 16 MB ram,
quantum 525LPS and Video Toaster 4000 board, parNET running and
connected to the Amiga parallel port.
It also happens on a system with a G-Force 040 with 16 MB ram, Quantum
105 LPS, Maxtor 1017 (1 gig), Fujitsu 2511 MO, all internal, a
Toshiba 3401B CD-ROM and MaynStream 2.0 GIG dat externally connected
to the '040 board. The ParNET is connected to the first of 2
parallel ports from a MFC II board. The serial port of the '040 is
used for the modem. It's parallal port is set to replace the base
AMiga parallel port and serves the printer. The base Amiga parallel
port is taken up by an AmiLink dongle. Also in the box is AMiLink
card, studio16, Y/C Plus, Toaster 3.1, FFV (version 2) and DKB
megachip.
Note the lock-up is relatively rare, except that I got it 3 times
today on one machine and twice on the other where I hadn't seen it
before today since I upgraded from ADos 1.3 and GVP 4.4 ROM.