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- From: sking@tyranosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (scott a king)
- Subject: GVP 3050 Impact II & WDC CAV2200 (not working help! please!)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.210414.27599@cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Summary: Doesn't work. I need help.
- Keywords: GVP 3050, WDC CAV2200, harddisk, IDE
- Sender: news@cis.ohio-state.edu (NETnews )
- Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
- Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:04:14 GMT
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- Netters,
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- I recently purchases a Western Digital Caviar 2200 IDE harddisk. I have a 2000
- with a GVP 3050 impact series II accellerator. The 3050 has Faastrom V 3.41
- (I think).
- I hooked up the diskdrive and went intor fastprep and followed GVP's
- instructions and just did an automatic prep. Everything appearred to work
- fine. Up popped a 202M dh1: (I have a Nexus controlling a SCSI as well).
- Great. NOT. When I copied files to the Caviar they were corrupted. When I
- took a closer look at them the first 512 bytes are fine and the reast is
- trashed. Some of the bytes are correct but I couldn't find a pattern. The
- file size is fine.
-
- Anyone have a clue???
-
- I tried the Caviar by itself and with the Nexus. I tried doing a manual prep.
- I tried mutliple partitions. I tried 1 buffer. I tried using just chip or
- just fast ram for the buffer. I tried many combinations but it doesn't work.
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- I called GVP (I got through after only 10 minutes! Honest!) and they said
- "That is not one of the drives we have tested with our controller." They
- suggested that I call WDC and ask them if 1) the CAV220 is IO channel ready
- and 2) if it uses sirus logic chip 235 (I think). The answer to 1 must be yes
- and no for 2. I called WDC and they were clueless. Said I must send a letter
- so they can ask the engineers.
-
- So I hope I've given enough info for some kind knowlegable sole to help me.
- Has anyone got any ideas, solutions, suggestions?? Anyone ever hooked up
- a WDC CAV2200 to an GVP3050. Will joan find out that tom is sleeping with mary
- and will mellisa marry joe or will joe join the foreign legion? Hopefully the
- answer to these and other exciting questions will be forthcoming soon.
-
- Thanks for any help and for those who read all of this post! ;-)
-
- Scott King.
- sking@cis.ohio-state.edu
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