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Re: Executor and Mac HD



In article <ufzqajiwv5.fsf@ftp.ardi.com>,
Clifford T. Matthews  <ctm@ardi.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Hakim <rhakim@macbeth.neuro.uottawa.ca> writes:
>In article <311D92E5.5ACC@macbeth.neuro.uottawa.ca> Richard Hakim <rhakim@macbeth.neuro.uottawa.ca> writes:
>
>
>    Richard> WOW!  I just downloaded the Executor demos for Linux and
>    Richard> Dos a few days ago, and I must say I'm impressed!
>
>Thanks.  Executor's still pre-beta, too, although that should change
>soon.
>
>    Richard> I've
>    Richard> always been a bit of a Mac wannabe, but have never had
>    Richard> the cash to support both Mac and IBM-clones... :)
>
>    Richard> I've got a bit of a burning question though.  I have a
>    Richard> Mac portable hard drive (a Joule 1080 MB), and have put
>    Richard> an old (bios-less Trantor T128) SCSI card in my system (a
>    Richard> P90 running Win95 and Linux).  I'd like to get Executor
>    Richard> to read and run programs off my portable HD.  It says
>    Richard> this is possible in the docs, but so far I haven't had
>    Richard> any success.  Under Win 95, the problem seems to be that
>    Richard> Windows doesn't even recognize the SCSI card, so of
>    Richard> course, it doesn't see the HD.
>
>You'll need an ASPI driver for your SCSI card before Executor can do
>anything.

Not only that, but you will need a very good ASPI driver.  I tried
this a long time ago with my T130b, and I had no success either.
Trantor's drivers were never very good.  I have tried executor with
several scsi cards, and only recently have I had any success, with a 
Future domain pci 3260.

Good luck with the linux version, though, because the T130 worked
fine with linux (although I don't have it any more, so it would
be difficult for me to help in this area)

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Michael Gile                        |               Graduate Assistant
gilem@rpi.edu                       |   Computer & Systems Engineering
"Don't Blame Me, I voted for Perot!"| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


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