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Thls
mantnl,
the
A53o
rurbo
acceterator,
dlstrlbufion
dlsks
and
all
related
materlals
are
copyrlght
1992,
Great
Valley
products,
Irrc.
(GVP).
All
rlghts
reserved.
Thls
product
does
not
requlre
openlng
the
Amtga
ASOo's
case
or any
other
Invaslve
procedure.
It
can
be Installed
wlthout
feapordlzlng
comnodore's
orlglnal
hcto6l
wananty.
tnstallatton
of
thls
product
does
requlre
some
small
degree
of
mechanlcal
ablllty
and
precautlons
agalnst
electrostauc
dlscharge.
The
user
assumes
all rlsks
when
thls
Installauon
ls
perbrmed
by anyone
other
than
a cerdned
GVP
dealer.
wortbench,
Klckstart,
Amlga,
A5oo,
AmlgaDos
and
Enhancer
arc
all rqglstercd
bademarks
of commodore
Internaflonal,
LH.
68000,68030,
68882are
trademarks
of
Motorcla,
lrrc.
Allottrcr
product
trade
names
and
deslgna$ons
are
used
br
lllustraflve
purposes
0nly
and
are
In
no
way
endorsemcnts
of
those
products
or lnfilngements
on
the
copyrlghted
properdes
of
thelr
manuhcfurers.
Amlga
A5OOand
A53Oarhrork
Inctuded
In
thls
mantnl
was
drawn
by
Bndle/
N.
LthMn.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1, lntroductlon
lRgadyl.
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Gol.
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$ystem tfrilitiec
GVPCpuCfrl.
GVPScslCtrl.
a
a r
a a
a a
r a a
a a r a a
a a a a I t aa
CPU.
GVP|nfo.
Upgrading
to Kiclrstart/ilorkbcnch
2.0. .
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Expansl(ofl. . r, r r
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AddlngRAM........,..
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Adding
Minl-Slol
Exponsion
Cords. . . . .
Adding
Exlemol Hord
Drives. . .
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Adding
o 68882
Coprocessor. . . . .
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A530
Turbo
October,
1992
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A.
Settlntls
RgferenGo.
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Appendlx
B.
Gugtomor
Setvlce.
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G. Problem
Reportlng
Form.
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STAfiMENT
WARNING:
Thls equlpment
has been deslgned to comply
wlth
th€
llmlts for
a
Class
B computlng <levlce,
pursuant
to Part
15 of the
Federal
Communlcatlons
Commlsslons
rules.
These rules and regulatlons
are
deslgned to
provlde
reasonalrle
protectlon
agalnst
radlo
ancl
televlslon
Interference In a reslclentlal
Installatlon.
lf
not
lnstalled
properly,
In strlct
accordance
wlth the manufacturer's Instructlons, lt may caulie lnterference.
lf
you
suspect Inteferetrce.
you
can
test thls
equlprnent
by tumlng lt on and off.
lf
you
stlll
experlence
Interference
wlth
the equlpment
swttdrecl
off. then the
cause
lles
elsewhere.
lf thls
equlpment does cause Interference when
swltched
on,
any or all of
the fcrllowlng
s,rgges0ons may correct the
problem.
.
fGorlent the antenna
or
plug
on
the
racllo
or
teleMslon recdver
'
Change
the
rclatlve
posltlons
of the GVP equlpment and the
radlo
or
teleMslon recelver
.
Plug the GVP equlpment
Into a dlfferent outlet
so
that the
pedpherd
and radlo or televlslon recelver are
on
dlfferent clrcults.
CAUTTON: Only
equlpment wlth
shleld-grouncled cables
(computer
lnput-
output
clevlces,
termlnals,
prlnters,
etc.), certlflerl to
comply wlth
Class
B
llmlts, can be
attachcd
to
thls devlce.
Operatlon
wlth non-certlfled
equlpment may result ln
communlcatlsrs
Int€rference.
Your house AC
wall
reccptaclc must be a three-prong€d t)rpe
(AC
trcunded),
lf not, contact an elcctrlclan to Install the
proper
rcceptacle.
lf a
multl-
receptacle swltch box or
"poriler
strlp' ls
wed
to connect the
computer
ancl
CVP
pedpherals
to
AC, th€n
all receptades
must
share a comrton
grcund.
lf necessaqr, contact
your
dealer
or
an
o<perlenced
radlo-W
tedtnldan
for
acldltlonal suggestlons.
You
may
flnd
the followlng FCC booklet helpful:
"How
to
ldendff
and Rsolve Radlo-TV Interference
Problems,' The
booklet ls
avallable
from
the U.S. Crwemment Prlntlng
Ofrce,
Washlngton, D.C. 2O4O2,
stod< no.
OO4{@4O345.4.
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Turbo
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CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION
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Ready...l
Thank
you
for
purchasing
thc GVP A530
Turbo
Combination sub-
system for the Amiga 4500.
This
product
rcpresents
the
most highly
integrated
system
enhancement avaihble
for
the
A500.
Its features
include:
Accelerator, SCSI controller,
RAM
expansion, and Hard
Drive in an all-in-one,
ersy
to
install, modular subsystem
"Plug
and
play"
i.rign
gets you
up and
running in almost
no
time at all
High
performance 40
MHz Motorola 68EC030 Central
Processing
Unit and optional 40
MHz
68882
Floating
Point Unit chips to maximize
system
throughput
Up to 8 Megabytes of onboard
32-bit
wide
FAST RAM,
using
GVP's 60
nanosecond l-
or
4-Mcgabyte
"SIMM-
32"
memory
exprruion modules for easy
installrtion
GVP's
atrtobooting DMA SCSI controller with
Faaast-
ROM and
FaaastPrep SCSI
software
technology
GVP custonr Mini-SIot provides
future expansion
pos-
sibilities through
the
addition
of
daughtercard
subsystems
GVP's custom
designed
Very
Large Scale Integration
(VLSI)
DMA
Pcriphcml and
RAM
Controller
chip
(DPRC)
for lowest
possible
component count
Surface Mount Technology
for
more reliable
irssembly and
rccltrcecl cost to the
user
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Inlroduclion
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o
6-layer
Printed
Circuit
Board
for
maximum system
intc-
gration
o
Scparate,
externrl
power
supply
provides
for
l00oA
of
4530
requiremcnts,
placing
no
additional
load on
AS00's
original
power
supply
.
Injection
molded
case
matchcs
exactly the
color
and
contour
ofthe
Commodore
A500's
NOIE:
Ihe GVP
A530lurbo
occelerolor
requlres
vcrllon 1.3
or
lolel
of
lhe Amlgo
Klcksbrf/Workbench
pOM.
Product
Une
ldentfflcatlon
The GVP
A530
Turbo
accelerator
for
the
Amiga
A500 is
the
ncxt
Iogical
enhancement
to
our existing
linc
ofA500
cxparuion products.
Other products
in
this
line
include:
Series
II4500
HD8+
-
SCSI
hard drive
and MM subsvstem
PC/286
-
16 MHz
MS/DOS
emulator
Gonfi(u rationo
Avallable
The
GVP
A530
Turbo accelerator
is
shipped
with
I Megabyte of
32-
bit FAST
RAM
and
various
harcl drive
capacities.
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Started
'l'hc
A530
Turbo
accelcrator is
among
thc
easicst
to use products
we
have ever
created. In most
cases,
the
4,530 system you purchase will
arrivc
in ready-to-run
condition.
The first
fc'w
pages
of
this manual
will
describe the sinrple
procedurcs
for
gctting
this
system
rrp
and
running
in thc least amount
of time .
In subsequent
chapters,
we will describe
in
detail
how to
add memory,
a 68882 rnath chip, and option:rl
Mini-Slot cxpansiol"r board to
your
4530
subsystem,
We
also
provide
complcte
documentation on
the
included softrvarc utilities.
An accompanying Faaa.stPrep 2.0
manual contains
everything
you will
need to know
to
add new
hlrd drives to
your
system
or
to repartition,
rcfomut or
reprcp
existing clrives.
So,
without
fi,rrthcr
rlelay, lct's
get
$tarted...
WARNING:
lhe
A530 Turbo
generotes
o
greot
deol
of
heot
when
runnlng under normol
loods.
lf
nol
properly
exhousted, fhls heot
con
domoge
youl
A530 unll
ond corrupt
dolo on
your
hqrd
drlve.
lt ls
lmportont
to
keep the A530's
coollng
fins open
so lhot
oir
con
flow
fteely
Info
the cose.
DO NOT COVER
THE
COOLING FINS YYITH PAPERS,
FLOPPY
DISKS
OR
OTHER OBSTRUCNONS.
lf
you
should ever
dlsossernble
your
A530
Turbo occelerotor - to
odd
RAM, for Inslonce
-
be
sure thot
you
reploce
the fon conneclor
correclly.
Ihe RED leod
goes
to
the
pln
on
conneclor
bloclc
CNl4,
lndlcoled
by
o
plus
(+).
Itlls FAN MUST BE WORKING
At ALt
TIMES.
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CHAPTE
R 4.
$oftware
Reference
System
Utllltles
The
A530
Turbo accelerator
includcs scveral
programs
created
by
GVP to
maximize your
system's performance.
Most of
them
may be
uscd
from
either
the
Workbench
or
AmigaDOS
Shell
interfaces.
FastPrep
2,0
Any time
you
wish
to
edd hard
drive
rc$ourccs
to
your
A530 systcm
(or
wish to chonge
thc
configu-
ration
of
thc
A530's
intcrnnl
hsrd
dripeJ,
you
will
use thc
FastPrep
2.0 hard disk preparation
utilities.
Thcse
are completcly
documented
in an accompanylng
to that
manual before
attempting
to
use
this
program.
GVPGpuCtil
GVPCpuCtrl
is a
new ctandard
utility
for
controlling
all GVP
accclerators.
It
has
uscr specifiablc
0ags that
condition
it to work
with
the
A530
Turbo,
our
line
of
'030
Combo
boards,
the
G-Force
'040
boards,
and othcr peripherals.
GVPCpuctd
functions
primarily
to
enablc
or disable
accelerated
processing
and
to map
thc
Amiga
system
ROM into
32-bit
memory
(if
enoagh is
ovnilobla).
It can
be cxecuted
at
startup,
as part
of
the
t:sturttt-scqrcrlcc
script,
run
from
thc Shell,
or launched
from
Workbench.
NOTE:
You
must hove
q
mlnlmum
of 2
Megobyfcs
of expondon
RAM
to
ruppoil ROM
remqpplng.
when
clicked
from the workbcnch,
GVPCpuctrl
reboots
thc
com-
puter
in
its native processor
mode.
In this
casc,
it
performs
essentially
the samc
function
as thc
hardware
Turbo switch:
It
disables the
AS30
accelerator
and
renrms your
A500
to 68000 proccssor
control.
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When GVPCpuClrl
ls used to disoble the A530 Turbo
occelerotor,
oll exponslon memory
ond hord dlsk resources
wlll be
cwltched
off
os
well.
In
thls
mode,
your
A500 wlll be
oble to use only
Ite own lnstolled memory ond
floppy drlvee.
GVPCpuCtrl,
when
run from the
CLI or
Shell,
performs
different
operations, depending
on the
pnramarar
supplied. Each
timc the
program is run, it
will accept
any
of four
possible
arguments.
These
may
be appended
singly or as a command
string with a space
character
separilting
arguments:
femplate:
GVPCpuCtrl
(orgument)
<return>
ArJumufis:
FASTROM
-
Copies
the contents of
system
ROM
into 32-bit
FAST mcmory
and resets ROM
vectors
to
point
to
this
new
copy Q MB minimum
requircd).
When
the FASTROM
option is cnabled, GVPCpuCtrl
reserves
512k
of
A530 Turbo RAM for ROM
remapping.
This
memory is
then unavailable for othcr uscs.
NOFASTROM
-
Rcsets
ROM
vectors
to
point
to the Amiga's
ROM chips
and frees any
FAST memory
previously
reserved for
FASTROM.
800T68000
-
Attcmpts
to
reboot
the computer into native
68000 operation.
Exuttplocl:
GVPCpuCtrl
FA.STROM
This
command
tells the
A530
Turbo accelerator to copy the Amiga's
Opcrating Systcm
ROM into 32-bit FAST RAM. Doing
so
dlows
thc
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r-
accelcrator
to
execute
system
library
calls many
times faster than
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nonnirl.
Morc
information
on how
this
works
is
provided
in Choptt
T
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-Theory
of
Opnntioz.
This
command
may alrcady
be prcsent
in thc
r
s:stnrtrp-tcqt
cncc
file
on
your
A530's
Hard Drive.
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The instruction:
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GVPCpuCtrl
800T68000 <return>
f
lrl
reboots
the Amiga with
thc 4,530
disabled.
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This program is
important
for several
applications.
You will probably
nced
this program
if
you
use
removable
media disk
drivcs
(snch
ss the
Ricoh,
Bernoulli or
Syfotcst
cortridgc
sytcms), and wish
thc computer
to
recognize
r caftridge
you
insert aftcr
the
computer
is
running.
You will
also need this
program
if
you
arc
using
SCSI
deviccs
(such
os
Wangtek tape d.ritcs)
that
require their
"disconnect"
fl"g to
be tumed
off.
Such dcvices
cannot
have this
flag
set by
FaaastPrep.
There
arc four
options
for using
GVPScsiCtrl
from the
CLL There
is
one
option
for
using
this
program
from
thc
WorkBench.
Wotkbendt:
When
the
GVPScsiCtrl
icon is
double
clicked using
the
Workbcnch
interFrcc,
a
command is scnt
ro the
GVP
scsl controller
that causes
it
to search
for
any
changed volumes (sach
os SyQucst
cartrid.ges) to
mount.
This
functions
essentially
the
same as
using the
-rn
CLI
option
described
below.
CLI
feirltplate:
GVPScslCtl
(option)
<return>
Vtr|pintc:
GVPScslCtrl
-m
Thc argument
-m,
in this casc,
stands
for
arwrnt
'
Thic form
of the
command
will
poll
all known
deviccs
connected
to thc
SCSI
buc and
artempt to
mount
any
ncw or
changcd
volumcs
it finds.
such
a
case
might
occur
u*len
iruerting
e ncw SyQucrt cartridgs into
a
prcviously
empty drive.
GVPScSICfiI
.T
Thic form of tlrc
command differs from thc abovc in
that it is
ablc
to
recognizc hard
drivcs or
othcr
devices
that
were
not
prescnt at
startup.
An
examplc mlght
be a largc-capacity
or older
drivc that
trkes an
appreciablc
rmount of timc to
"spin
up.t
In such a
case,
thc
-m
option
would
not
recognize
any
drivcr that had not
rcachcd
operating spced
whcn
the
rptcm booted,
The + option, by
contrast, forceo
thc SCSI
controllcr
to
recxamine
all
pocriblc
unit
IDs
for mountablc drirac. In
tltis
carc, ttre'r
orgumcnt
stends hr
ntucas.t
If the controtlcr
encounten a vdid
devicc
with no
mountablc
volume
(an
ctupty
$Qycst
drivc,
for
iwtaw)),
it
will skip
to thc
next available dcvicc.
GVPScdCtd
-s
This
form
of
thc
commrnd
functions
similar to the
-m
option
describcd abovc.
It differs
&om
thc
prcviour
form in
that
lt
will
wait
runtil nll deviccs return
succescfully
mountcd. If it
should
find an
cmpty SyQucst drive, br
instoncc,
thc
program will
halt
rnd
nait
until
a
valid
cartridgc
ir incerted. Thc
ergument
-s,
in thlr casc,
rtendr for
"tirhy,rrot
rfi.t
This command mry be uscd in
the
tttrtqrttqr,cncc
to
ensurc
that a
rcmovablc
media
cartridge will bc recognizcd
as
$oon
as
it
ir
iruertcd.
In this caser
thc
-s
ilrgument
shotrld
be
prcvcnted
from
hanglng up
yotrr
boot sequence by using thc AmigaDOS Rlrncommand:
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