GVP HD mounting problems
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I have a somewhat strange problem I was hoping someone might be able to help
me with. I have an A2000 with a Supra memory board (2 megs out of a possible 8
on-board), an old XT Bridgeboard, and a GVP Series II HC 8 (with no memory).
The hard card has a quantum 50 meg drive on it, and I also have it
daisy-chained to a Toshiba 3101 CD-Rom drive, AND daisy chained to another
internal 100-meg quantum hard drive.
My problem is this: the 100 meg hard drive, which I just bought, does not
mount when I first boot up my Amiga. However, It DOES mount if I warm-boot the
system! I am running AmigaDos 2.1 w/1 meg Agnus, and old Denise. This seems
very strange. I prepped the drive and formatted it with the latest version of
ExpertPrep. It still does this. Can anyone help me so that I can use my second
hard drive when I first boot up my system?
–Steve–
I had a similar problem. With a Series II maybe 'GvpScsiCtrl -r' in your
user startup will mount it. I had a drive that wouldn't be recognized on
power up, but was if I warm booted. This will go out and query the SCSI
bus again and 'hopefully' mount any drives that are slow to spin up.
Robb
Rob, I can't thank you enough. It works! There' a load off my mind! Thank you
a thousand times!
–Steve–
Steve,
Excellent, glad to hear it worked! I know how frustrated I was! It's not
in my manual…
You are welcome a thousand times.
Later,
Robb
Steve,
Make sure that the LAST DISK flag is NOT checked off in the RDB of the original
drive (or on any other drive). Also, try swapping the SCSI ID numbers of the
drives, so that the newer drive will be scanned at a different location.
Some drives will take too long to spin up and be recognized. In these worst
case scenarios, you will either have to re-boot the system or use a program
such as SCSIMOUNTER to mount the drive manually after the system is active.
GVP TECH
Well, I know that the LAST DISK flag wasn't checked off in the RDB.
However, the solution that DID work for me, if you haven't already read the
other response I received from another user here (Robert Little) is to add the
line 'GVPScsiCtrl -r' to my user-startup. Apparently this works fine, although
I haven't a clue as to why. As Robert mentioned, this isn't documented
anywhere. At least, not in my documentation, but it is a little older (about 2
years, roughly). Since GVP's reputation precedes them (excellent), I knew that
there would be some proper solution to my dilemma.
Anyway, thanks for the suggestion – and I hope that this solution aids you
should anyone else ever have a similar problem'question.
Thanks!
–Steve–
GVP is just too quick for some hard drives…they aren't up to speed when
the controller looks for SCSI devices on the bus. The -r forces the
controller to poll the bus a 2nd time, on the lookout for those slow
pokes out there.
Gary
on AutoPilot from Charlotte, NC