Gvp Hd-8+

lauri_t · 09 April 2006, 12:41

Hi, I could get a GVP HD-8+ for a reasonable price and was wondering if it is a good SCSI controller? Does it support a larger hard drive like one GB? It has a external SCSI port, could that be used for eg. a zip drive?
It comes with 8MB fast preinstalled so I won't have to bother about the possibility that it uses GVP simms.

AMIGAZ · 09 April 2006, 15:25

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Originally Posted by lauri_t

Hi, I could get a GVP HD-8+ for a reasonable price and was wondering if it is a good SCSI controller? Does it support a larger hard drive like one GB? It has a external SCSI port, could that be used for eg. a zip drive?
It comes with 8MB fast preinstalled so I won't have to bother about the possibility that it uses GVP simms.

I have the GVP A530 here which I believe uses the same SCSI controller and I'm using a 2.1 gig SCSI hd with no problems.
It's a DMA SCSI controller, not the fastest one..if you only have a 68000 CPU you don't have to bother with speed

I'm using the 25pin external port for external SCSI cd-rom's, a zip drive should work fine

patrik · 09 April 2006, 16:41

@AMIGAZ:

I have to disagree about the speed - I would say it is really fast: if you have a decent harddrive it will manage a bit more than 2MB/Sec disregarding what CPU you have (as it is a DMA SCSI controller). You wont find a faster harddrive controller for the A500.

You are right, it is the same controller in the A530 and as it is the same controller, it cant showe data any faster to/from the A530 onboard 32-bit fastram than to/from the HD8+ onboard fastram.

I think there were some issues with harddrives larger than 1GB with some really really old version of the driver for the HD8+ (I think it was a 3.x version of gvpscsi.device). The latest version is 4.15 and can be downloaded here, but you need an EPROM-burner to upgrade it.

lauri_t · 09 April 2006, 20:04

Well, I won the auction. Now i just have to wait for it to ship. Amiga-hardware says it has a internal 50-pin connector. Is that the normal one for SCSI or do I have to check before buying a hard drive?

Jope · 09 April 2006, 20:32

It's normal for narrow scsi drives.

Olecranon · 10 April 2006, 03:12

I have that card and its great. Although I've upgraded to the latest ROM, it worked fine with a 2GB Seagate Hawk Hard Drive using a V4.4 ROM (pretty early I think). In fact, I think I even tested it with a 4GB Fujitsu and it worked fine.

09 April 2006, 12:41	#1
lauri_t Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Turku, Finland Age: 39 Posts: 20	Gvp Hd-8+ Hi, I could get a GVP HD-8+ for a reasonable price and was wondering if it is a good SCSI controller? Does it support a larger hard drive like one GB? It has a external SCSI port, could that be used for eg. a zip drive? It comes with 8MB fast preinstalled so I won't have to bother about the possibility that it uses GVP simms.

09 April 2006, 16:41	#3
patrik Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Umeå Age: 43 Posts: 922	@AMIGAZ: I have to disagree about the speed - I would say it is really fast: if you have a decent harddrive it will manage a bit more than 2MB/Sec disregarding what CPU you have (as it is a DMA SCSI controller). You wont find a faster harddrive controller for the A500. You are right, it is the same controller in the A530 and as it is the same controller, it cant showe data any faster to/from the A530 onboard 32-bit fastram than to/from the HD8+ onboard fastram. I think there were some issues with harddrives larger than 1GB with some really really old version of the driver for the HD8+ (I think it was a 3.x version of gvpscsi.device). The latest version is 4.15 and can be downloaded here, but you need an EPROM-burner to upgrade it. Last edited by patrik; 09 April 2006 at 16:53.

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09 April 2006, 20:04	#4
lauri_t Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Turku, Finland Age: 39 Posts: 20	Well, I won the auction. Now i just have to wait for it to ship. Amiga-hardware says it has a internal 50-pin connector. Is that the normal one for SCSI or do I have to check before buying a hard drive?

09 April 2006, 20:32	#5
Jope - Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Helsinki / Finland Age: 43 Posts: 9,861	It's normal for narrow scsi drives.

10 April 2006, 03:12	#6
Olecranon Registered User Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Wisconsin - USA Age: 56 Posts: 86	I have that card and its great. Although I've upgraded to the latest ROM, it worked fine with a 2GB Seagate Hawk Hard Drive using a V4.4 ROM (pretty early I think). In fact, I think I even tested it with a 4GB Fujitsu and it worked fine.

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