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- From: Chris.Collins@f366.n632.z3.fidonet.org (Chris Collins)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Adaptec 1542B don't work
- Message-ID: <725996382.AA08636@csource.oz.au>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 12:54:10
- Sender: gateway@csource.oz.au
- Lines: 52
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- > From: weiss@staff.tc.umn.edu ()
- > Organization: University of Minnesota
- >
- > I just bought an Adaptec 1542B so I could reinstall and USE OS2 with the
- > added storage of my 90MB Bernoulli.
- >
- > It doesn't work for me--I get a "SYS 0026 The specified disk...cannot be
- > accessed" when I change to the scsi drive (Bernoulli) and do a "DIR" inside
-
- > an OS2 window. OS2 accesses the drive--it whirs during boot --but doesn't
- > see the files on there already. It was formatted with Adaptec's AFDISK.
- >
- > My boot drive is an RLL. The Adaptec is set to BIOS DISABLE (so as to use
- ASPI
- > drivers in DOS), INT 11, SCSI ID 5, LUN 0, i/o address 330, host adaptor:7
- > and DMA 5. It's set to 5 mb/s DTR, and EVERY possible conflicting card has
- > been removed from my system--an 8MB 386-25 uncached clone--to no avail.
- >
- > This is quite frustrating since the 1542B SHOULD work.
- >
- > What might I be doing wrong?
- > Thanks,
- >
- > __jeffrey weiss
- >
- >
- Jeffrey,
- DON'T PANIC! (I love that quote!) You are not doing anything
- wrong. I have a similar setup at this end, except that I use an 88mb
- Syquest rather than a Bernoulli, but I will bet that the principle
- is the same.
-
- OS/2 treats removeable format media as floppy disks, so it want's
- to see a floppy disk format on the media, no FDISK and such as for
- hard disks. Unload the software that you have on the removeable under
- DOS, boot OS/2 and format the disk under OS/2 and copy your software
- back again.
-
- I know that this is a pain in the A**E, I have 10 of these 88mb
- cartridges and most were 75% full.
-
- Supposedly a driver is in the wind from either Adaptec of
- Syquest, but????
-
- Hope that this helps.
-
- Chris
-
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