#GVP questions
I've just gotten and installed a GVP Impact A2000 2/0 controller and Quantum
40Meg hard drive into my A2000. I don't have the A2000 Autoboot roms
installed. It all works pretty nicely, but two things came to my attention to
ask about, in case anyone here knows…
1) The boot script runs a program called "tstGVPscsi", which I couldn't
figure out what it did. It always seems to fail with an returncode of 20.
Anyone know what this program does? The script has a comment which seems to
imply that it does something with slower SCSI hard drives (of which I have
none…). Anyway, I've commented it out for now…
2) There is an AWFUL lot of memory being consumed somewhere here… When I
boot off the HD boot floppy, it uses over 200K more of fast RAM than if I boot
off a normal workbench 1.3 flopd. (Of course, I can't use the rd disk with
that…) Somehow that doesn't seem quite right. I *do* have the disk
paQ%Q%=9ed into three partitions, but even so, that's almost 70K per
partition… Anyone know what the details are here?
3) Is there any way to UNMOUNT a partition when it isn't being used? That
might save some memory…
4) Anyone know a good source for 256K x 4 RAMs? <grin>
–>Steve Bennett