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Old 12-28-2007, 09:13 PM   #1
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Default Vortex GoldenGate SLC2 50MHZ

My GoldenGate SLC2 50MHZ Bridgeboard just arrived from Germany. Initial tests look good. It boots to a 720k Dos 6.22 floppy in the Amiga DF0 drive in my A4000. Does anyone have a link to the english version of the manual? Mine is in German:-).

Also any quick get started/setup tips about this board would be helpful. I am having trouble getting an IDE hard drive to work on the GG controller.

One final note. Does anyone know what the jumpers do, or what the default settings should be?

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Old 12-28-2007, 09:46 PM   #2
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Default Re: Vortex GoldenGate SLC2 50MHZ

The hd is bigger than the GG BIOS can deal? :roll:
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That generation of BIOS might limit you to 540 MB (or maybe 2 GB) of HDD size. :boohoo: Wikipedia: INT 13
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Old 12-29-2007, 06:28 AM   #4
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All the hard drives that I am trying to use are probably too big. I guess I'll start with a small Amiga partition first. Still, an english copy of the manual would be most helpful. As would any pointers from someone that has set one of these up.

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Default Re: Vortex GoldenGate SLC2 50MHZ

ah.... I have 2 of these puppies, very nice!
MAX HD size is 430MB. sad but true. Software bios add-ons like DiskManager or EZ-Disk that bypass this limit, do not always work on GG cards UNFORTUNATELLY. there is a 50-50% boot success rate. I have tried it many times with various debug options... what you can easily do, is create an amiga partition of ~430MB and assign it as a PC-HD on the GG BIOS...
if you want a soundcard for your GG, try to get a SoundBlaster 8bit one. they always work 1000%. newer models work too, but they tend to choke (due to isa bandwitdth of the GG I think)
A Cirrus Logic 542x vga is nice too
btw, the english GG manual is huge, I have not seen it online anywhere...
ask here what exactly you want and I will try my best to answer you...
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