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- From: jlloyd@adapcal.UUCP (John Lloyd)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0, IDE, SCSI, and ASPI - HELP
- Organization: Adaptec Inc., California
- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 18:07:05 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan01.180705.21856@adapcal.UUCP>
- References: <1992Dec30.233711.22980@colorado.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec30.233711.22980@colorado.edu> lannigan@colorado.edu (Peter Lannigan) writes:
- >I need to know how to get the ASPI driver to work with my SCSI stuff and
- >still be able to boot off of my IDE hard drive.
- >
- >I have a PS2 (model 70) running only OS/2 2.0 which boots off of the internal
- >IDE hard drive (only one partition on it). I also have the Adaptec AHA-1640
- >SCSI host adapter. Off of this I have a 300 meg SCSI drive and an Exabyte 8200
- >SCSI tape drive. I dissabled the BIOS on the Adaptec so that the system boots
- >of the IDE, as it should. My problem is that the system hangs when it gets
- >to reading the config.sys file IF the file has a reference to the ASPI driver.
- >I have gotten the SCSI hard to work with the IDE drive but I can't use the
- >tape drive until I can use the ASPI driver because I MUST run gnutar (gtak)
- >to make tape for unix machines.
- >
- >How should I set up my config.sys (the BASEDEV lines) to get the ASPI driver
- >to work. Here's the relavant parts of what I have:
- >
- >BASEDEV=IBM2FLPY.ADD
- >BASEDEV=IBM2ADSK.ADD
- >BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD
- >BASEDEV=AHA164X.ADD
- >rem BASEDEV=OS2ASPI.DMD
- >BASEDEV=OS2SCSI.DMD
-
- What is the date/file size of OS2ASPI.DMD? I use IDE drives quite a bit
- here at Adaptec and have never had the problem you describe.
-
- jlloyd@adapcal.com
-