GVP 3001 68030 + RAM card HDToolbox

[RetroNinja]

Hello,

I just came into ownership of a GVP 3001 card. It's a rockin card with the RAM module attached to the back and a GVP IDE ROM installed. It boots with an included Maxtor 7245AT HDD just fine.

I've read some that says the GVP.IDE ROM only supports early pre-standard drives. I'm not sure how true that is. The working HDD is not listed as one of the few that work. My next step/test is to install a 500MB DOM IDE. I have some DOM that max out at '1024 cylinders' as their config. This seems to match the stated limit.

Does anyone know if I can use the Commodore HDToolbox to install an additional drive or do I need a GVP HD tool?

 

[RetroNinja]

It seems my DOM was a bridge too far. I tried using the following drive with no joy.

PQI DJ0032M44RD0

• Capacity 32MB
• Cylinder 500
• Head 8
• Sector 16
• Total sectors 64000

When I tried to use HDTollbox to view the drive it would fail to read the drive properly. Some garbage would be displayed in the Manufacture/Model/Version windows. If I manually put in my data (listed above) it would act proper but creating partitions would never actually work. When using Sysinfo I see that the device gvpat is loaded. If I'm reading it properly the driver is v3.3 So I tried a few things in the Information of HDTollbox

device=gvpat.device
and
SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=gvpat.device
and
SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=gvpat.device
XT_DEVICE_NAME=gvpat.device

I was never able to choose the XT option in HDToolbox. Changes I could make were under the SCSI option. My test platform is a rev 6.2 mobo, with 2.04 ROM, and 2.1 AOS

Rando questions

• does SCSI_DEVICE_NAME need to be in caps? One thread I read says yes. It just seems odd.

 

[RetroNinja]

ANY RAM8 INSTRUCTIONS out there?

My card appears to have (2) bad SIMMs. If I uninstall the suspected bad SIMMs it boots fine as a 4MB card. It also appears to be either 4 or 8MB only, no 6MB allowed.

More rando questions

• Sysinfo 4.4 fails load from gotek, at first I thought it may be the bad mem, but now I think it may be the 68030, any opinions?
• ATK boots fine from gotek, I used this to identify the bad SIMMs

 

[TjLaZer]

Make sure those SIMMS are Nibble mode or they will not work.

 

[RetroNinja]

Make sure those SIMMS are Nibble mode or they will not work.

Thanks for the info, buutt........

Shouldn't you be busy dodging falling trees and manning the pumps right now? I hope things are well for you.