#GVPII good deal ?
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I have a GVPII controllor. I got it in the so called trade up. Well the bad
news is the GVP will not work with all scsi setups. If you trade in a Cltd
or a supra controler that used a adaptec or omti scsi to st506 setup your
out a hard drive or two. It looks like the GVP controller only works with
drives with integrated scsi controllers. Now thats bad news for any one
with a A1000 hard drive setup and gets a B2000 and uses the trade up deal.
GVP should say up front if the controler works with A1000 hard drive setups
or not before giveing a tadeup deal.
JOHN.
John,
Have you called GVP and asked them about it? GVP has a reputation for
excellent customer service. It may be something that they overlooked and
will be anxious to correct. There should be no difference with using the
Adaptec, since it looks like a SCSI drive to the SCSI host. It may be
possible that you'd need to change the SCSI ID number on the Adaptec, for
which you'd need the Adaptec docs. You didn't mention what your current
setup is, but, if you got a drive with the GVP it's very likely that trying
to reuse your older drive with the same settings would result in an address
conflict. Also, any terminator resistors need to be removed from all but
the last SCSI device in the daisy-chain.
David
Syquest ID #0 Adaptec ID #1 . The drive lights up but the GVP prep says
theres no drive to prep.
John.
John,
Sounds like you've got the ID set OK. Are you certain that the terminator
packs have been removed from all but the last drive in the chain. (Sounds
like it might be the Adaptec from your description. Do you have the
terminator's removed from the Syquest?)
What did GVP Customer Service have to say?
David
I took the Syquest off the buss for a full test. It was a no go. The drive
light would work but thats it. Fastprep says no drive mounted. I tryed the
old mountlist way, but it will not format. When you call GVP you get a
automated phone system. So im waiting for a call back.
John.