Conference hydra::amiga_v1

2954.0. "Maybe a Virus Source??" by HPSCAD::GATULIS (Frank Gatulis) Sun Sep 24 1989 02:36

    Beware!
    
    I had sent my GVP 40Q hardcard back for repairs and they sent me
    a brand new one.  I sent back a Rev-3 with no autoboot roms and
    the sent me a Rev-5 with roms, new installation disk, warranty,
    new manual, the works.  That's the good news.
    
    The bad news is that after going through the installation process,
    making a backup copy of the installation disk and a couple of boot 
    floppies, I get the message saying "Congratulations .... you're
    disks have now been infected with the SCA Virus.....etc".
    
    I can't say for certain how this happened but I believe It was from
    the GVP Installation disk.  I had turned the system on from cold
    and the only disks that touched it were the installation disk and
    3 brand knew ones.  VirusX indicated that the 3 disks created in
    this process, along with memory were infected and that the GVP
    installation disk was not.  I assume some part of the installation
    got it into memory and then it started to spread.
    
    No damage done but I'm not happy about it.  I'll give GVP a call
    monday and see what they say!
    
    As an aside for GVP owners:  The rev-5 controller has a  radically
    different mountlist from rev-3.  Part of it's due to the fact that
    rev-5 installs fastfile system automatically but they've also remapped
    the drive (40 meg Quantum) here's some of the mountlist differences:

       			Rev-3		Rev-5
    			-----		-----
    Buffers=		30		32
    Bufmemtype=		0		1
    Surfaces=		4		2	
    Blockspertrack=	16		32
    HighCyl=		1220		1280
    Interleave=		0		unspecified
    MaxTransfer=        unspecified	8192
    
I don't understand the implication of all of these changes but overall,
    my hard disk R/W performance is up by an average factor of 5, measured
    with "diskperfa"      
    
    Frank