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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!weyrich!orville
- From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
- Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-1542B and large SCSI questions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.190906.14306@weyrich.UUCP>
- Sender: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
- Reply-To: uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville
- Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 19:09:06 GMT
- Lines: 50
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- Well, thanks to the net and IBM tech support I have made progress. The
- success story part goes as follows:
-
- 1) Install Adaptec AHA-1542B SCSI controller and Maxtor 1.5 Gig drive
- with no MFM drives enabled. Was advised by the net to stick with the
- original 3.10 Adaptec ROM, because OS/2 depends on that version and
- breaks if new ROMS are put in. Install GA version of OS/2. Problems
- encountered and successfully resolved (read on for how):
-
- a) FDISK can only see the first Gig of my SCSI drive.
-
- b) After the HPFS partition is successfully formatted and
- I go through all of the installation disks with apparent
- success, a new problem arises: upon reboot of the system,
- it consistently crashes with a Trap #000d and a dump titled
- "Exception in device driver: AHA154x$"
-
- 2) Install the SP on top of the GA that crashes. Problems 1.a and 1.b
- resolved!
-
-
- Remaining open issues:
-
- 3) Since the GA code by itself does not work, I need to make a floppy boot
- disk set that contains the GA+SP, FDISK, CHKDSK, and TINYED plus any other
- tools needed for disaster recovery. Can anyone tell me how to do this
- for GA+SP?
-
- Does anyone have any recommendations for additional disaster-recovery tools?
-
- 4) The GA code would not even format my SCSI drive with my MFM drives
- enabled in ROM bios and powered up. Disabling them in ROM BIOS and
- powering them down fixed that problem. I need to try again to get them
- working using the GA+SP code -- but first I need to resolve (3).
-
- Any help or advice would be appreciated. Since my news is slow,
- I would prefer e-mail. I will post a summary of any interesting
- information.
-
- Thanks
-
-
- orville
-
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- Orville R. Weyrich, Jr. Weyrich Computer Consulting
- Certified Data Processor POB 5782, Scottsdale, AZ 85261
- Certified Systems Professional Voice: (602) 391-0821
- Internet: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net Fax: (602) 661-0660
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