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- Page 2 Valley Products, Inc. prior Great trademarks of Impact, Impact Series II, DPRC, and FaaastPrep‘" are GVP, registered Products. Great Valley Inc. Commodore Amiga is a registered trademark of Commodore-Amiga, Inc. is a trademark of Limited. Macintosh is a...
- Page 3 TABLE or CONTENTS ..............2 Introduction Additional Installing RAM in GVP's Impact Series Fast ............3 Controllers SCSI/RAM Hard Installing the First Drive on a ......... 5 Controller GVP Series SCSI/RAM Additional Hard Installing Drives on GVP Impact ..........7...
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- Page 5 INTRODUCTION Valley Products II product line offers Great (GVP) Impact Series add-on peripheral a wide products for of high-performance range Commodore This manual as the Amiga computer systems. serves User's Guide for the following products: This product Impact Series II A2000-HC+8.
- Page 6 INSTALLING ADDITIONAL FAST SCSI/RAM GVP’s IMPACT SERIES ll CONTROLLERS Adding RAM to the board is relatively simple and requires only steps. that should be used is (nanosecond) or faster, lOOns page mode stands for Random DRAM SIMMs. DRAM Access Memory...
- Page 7 Step 1: be inserted in a order. They go in from SlMMs must specific the innermost to the outermost sockets diagram (CNlO) (CN17) (see at beginning of Chapter maximum configuration is eight mega‑ all the sockets will bytes and in this filled.
- Page 8 INSTALLING FIRST HARD DRIVE ON A SCSI/RAM SERIES II CONTROLLER II controller with no hard drive purchased your GVP Series attached and wish to attach a hard drive, follow these few just steps: Step I: hard drive. The follow‑ it is...
- Page 9 Next, you the hard drive. This connect 4-pin power connector to connector is located Included with either side your GVP SCSI connector. a small four-wire cable with a on either end. The Board connector small end plugs board and the...
- Page 10 INSTALLING ADDITIONAL HARD DRIVES ON SCSVRAM IMPACT SERIES II CONTROLLER peripheral devices be attached to Up to seven SCSI any GVP II controller. These devices be hard disk drives, Impact Series a few to understand There tape drives, CD-ROMs, etc.
- Page 11 This cable attaches to the interfere backofthe IIcontrollerthrough a 25-pin GVP Impact Series c o n n e c t o r, the cable usually has other end shielded which a 50‐pin...
- Page 12 SCSI/RAM INSTALLING IMPACT SERIES [1 2000 AMIGA CONTROLLER CARDS IN This chapter will describe the physical installation of the impact 11 cards in the that read this installa‑ Series Amiga 2000. suggest that become familiar with it and then tion first, so proceed to do actual installation.
- Page 13 GVP impact Series 0 install in the card first and then install the any options card in the 2000. In other words, if adding a hard drive to the card or if you are do that first and then install the card in the...
- Page 14 Step 1: cord from the disconnect the Disconnect power Amiga. Next, cable and other device keyboard cable, plugged into mouse second It is essential that these cables be removed before mouse port. taking the off the machine. cover Step 2: secured these case...
- Page 15 Amiga 2000 you are going board There five slots that capable of plug into. your new GVP holding the GVP board. the diagram below for slot locations: Power Supply Note: boards which have a hard drive mounted on them wider Since what than normal single‐slot...
- Page 16 Next use secure screw card in place. Step 6: internal only that hard drive attached (This them) necessary GVP cards have an that displays when are accessing LED on Amiga Next, hard drive be connected. On the older 20005 must green on the is amber.
- Page 17 Please by using GVP's FaaastPrep. proceed to 9 for initialization Chapter procedures. Warning: hard drive is mounted on ll Board Amiga 2000...
- Page 18 USING PC BRIDGEBOARD DISK HARD WITH A boards II controller Commodore's GVP Impact Series support Bridgeboards by providing a convenient A2088 A2286 create virtual drives for the PC side to virtual drive refers to the access. term which created side file...
- Page 19 INSTRUCTIONS Step 1 : Installation diskette in drive and double your floppy Insert Bridgeboard Install utility by double click on its icon. Next, run GVP's clicking Follow the icon. instructions prompted by B B ] When utility. proceed BBI is finished, next step.
- Page 20 Step 3: Place the drive. Reboot Disk#1 MS‐DOS System 5.25" your [ B M window color or PC mono computer (CTRL-AMIGA-AMIGA). Open ‐ depending on what have selected by consulting jumper settings you Bridgeboard manual. your Step 4: make a Always make backups! backup of the You can...
- Page 21 * The or so-called “control Z” character is obtained by holding “AZ” the control down and same time. (CTRL) pressing After this last line is typed and the key is pressed, the RETURN computer will a confirmation should give you message, your prompt return...
- Page 22 Step 8: need to make a boot file on the that will same floppy serve Now you the virtual drive and transfer control to it after to automatically activate Please each type startup. a:\autoexec.bat Copy c o n and hit the following lines without typing RETURN.
- Page 23 INSTALLING THE LAWS VERSION II SOFTWARE Step 1: Installation diskette in and double floppy drive Insert your click Install utility by double run GVP’s Bridgeboard its icon. Next, Follow the clicking prompted BBI icon. instructions utility. When proceed BBI is finished, next step.
- Page 24 Repeat process have the installation. now completed MS‐DOS system disk, floppy and rebooting the work by may test your removing 5.25" Bridgeboard side. watch GVP-controlled hard drive autoboot your Now, drivel as a virtual MS‐DOS...
- Page 25 The manual mode is recommended for the experienced user only. Hard drives previously prepped using the old GVP drivers he re‐prepped and Note: driver updated using the Automatic mode. Using the Automatic mode to re‑...
- Page 26 drive other than number click if you are installing a zero, zero, to the available Next" gadget proceed "Skip next unit. have chosen will Once you number, your correct lD FaaastPrep read in information regarding the drive and display it on the left some hand side the number...
- Page 27 will also to consult manual on additional want your AmigaDOS information regarding copying. Manual Mode Features: Level This will hard dirve instruct a to complete a Format: L o w level format will also level format on itself. present a screen allowing for the the interleave drive.
- Page 28 FileSys: File File OFS-Old File FPS-Fast system t y p e System, System, AFS‐Alternate File (currently not utilized)‘ System that the buffers allocated from. E-either M e m : Type memory fast or chip, C-Chip, F-Fastr Mask: Address Mask to specify that transfers memory range...
- Page 29 PROGRAMMER’S In this chapter, we will of the technical details explain some more which useful to know if related to software you want GVP’s SCSI driver or if performance SCSI you want program improve even further. (and the example on the distribution...
- Page 30 Trackdisk Commands driver the following trackdiskdevice commands GVP's SCSI supports the official documentation on the [2, pages 8-70 3-76] (see trackdiskdevice and E‑ [2, pages D-19 D-20] [2, pages E‐20 for the corresponding include file definitions): CMD_READ CMD_WRITE TD_FORMAT TD_MOTOR...
- Page 31 Always make sure the turned off after motor is using TD_MOTOR otherwise since might CM D_READ, CM D_WRITE or TD_FORMAT, able removable media to eject cartridges ( e g . SyOuest). Direct SCSI Commands The Commodore standard provides fora of sending SCSI raw SCSl commands that do...
- Page 32 SCSI used for DMA should be at least word-aligned. some Memory regions controllers longword-alignment. This of GVP‘sthough) even require (none achieved with the AllocMem() call. The other is easily requirement is related to the used: controllers...
- Page 33 None traversing to the GVP impact and usually sufficient I SCSI controllers, it is Series a Maskvalue ofOxFFFFFE. Please referto manual your RAM expansion for further information. Summary: For CMD_READ, CMD_WRITE io_Data TD_FORMAT,...
- Page 34 (default if you start it This Workbench). way it be "Run" in your "Startup-Sequence". Disconnect device driver automatically enables all 3 ofthe Version GVP SCSI SCSI devices to “disconnect" if than is connected. This that if more means device detects that...
- Page 35 The disconnect feature has a slightly higher per-command overhead than the mode which “holds" the bus until the command “nasty" SCSI completed. With Series I controllers, GVP Impact SCSI writing very blocks of data also be slower in disconnect‐mode. If large slightly with several...
- Page 36 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Combination eight megabyte, zero‐waitstate, Fast controller and controller X3T9.2 compatible SCSI ANSI up to seven peripherals Supports SCSI transfers to and from hard disk High performance data transfer rates of up to 3.58MB/sec for SCSI peripherals SCSI bus host interface Amiga 2000 expansion controller both...
- Page 37 SCSI EXTERNAL PINOUT CONNECTOR (DB‐25) FEMALE Name Name Ground Ground Ground Ground DB(PJ DB( 1) DB(O) Ground DB(2) DB(3) DB(4) Ground DB(S) DB(6) TPWR DB(7) SCSI INTERNAL PINOUT CONNECTOR Name ’ ° ° ° ° ° ° ° Ground ° Ground °...
- Page 38 WARRANTY from the date of purchase, Great Valley a period of one year hardware shall Products warrants to original purchaserthat the be free from manufacturing defects. This is applicable only to original purchaser warranty pur‑ chased the product directlyfrom Valley Products or from an author‑ Great ized dealer.
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