CompuServe Thread

Well here's the problem… I purchased a used GVP HC+8 Series II controller for my Amiga 2000HD rev.6. Along with the board came a Quantum 80 meg hard drive and 4 megs of ram. The board and drive were advertised as working perfectly 3 months ago. I read the instructions 6 times before attempting installation and it seemed to go smoothly. The cables are all keyed so I couldn't put them in wrong. I was very careful of static electricity because I've been bitten by that bug before. Put it all back together, turned it on… First thing I got was a guru. Then I got that sickening burnt resistor smell. Shut it off, took the cabinet off and the drive was very warm. Too Warm. With the machine back on I tryed the install software (what the heck!) It did not recognise the drive as being there. SysInfo recognises the board and the RAM but not the drive. So I said to myself " Bad drive". Gotta get another. So… I picked up another drive, a factory referb 20 megger ( Why blow up another big one ) but this time I decided to check the voltages first to make sure the board wasn" t super electrified. The readings were 12 and 5 volts. Just right ( I think ). Hooked it all up this time with the cover off. plugged it in turned it on… POP ! something burned on the drive. Thats 100 megs down the tubes… I'm really at a loss here folks and can't afford to buy any more drives. The first drive was terminated the second wasn't. I'm sure I had them plugged in correctly. My system now has the Commodore 2090 card and a Rodine 35 meg drive that works perfectly. I have no other cards in the machine. The 4megs of RAM are there. Any suggestions? Comments? Thanks !