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- From: gag@nosc.mil (Gary A. Gilbreath)
- Subject: Re:: SCSI Drive (Fujitsu 520 MB with Adaptec 1542b) not working.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.234309.15439@nosc.mil>
- Keywords: Adaptec 1542B, OS/2 2.0
- Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:43:09 GMT
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- Here are my experiences with the Adaptec 1542B and OS/2 2.0 GA.
-
- I also had problems with the Adaptec 1542b. The system gave me an
- "Exception in device driver AHA154x$" whenever I tried to boot off
- the hard disk. Figuring there was something wrong with the driver, I
- downloaded the beta driver from the Adaptec bulletin board, (408)
- 945-7727, booted OS/2 off the floppy, copied the old driver to a
- different name, copied the new driver over the old driver, then
- rebooted from the hard disk. OS/2 finally came up and started the
- tutorial. I went through the tutorial and when it was done it gave
- me a blank gray screen with a normal mouse pointer in the middle (no
- wait icon). Meanwhile, the hard disk was getting hammered on. I
- waited several minutes, then started hitting mouse buttons -- nothing
- changed. I let it run for about 45 minutes. I finally gave up and
- rebooted.
-
- It then brought up the shell and I was able to run the solitaire
- game. However, when I exited that, it hung up again.
-
- I talked to IBM tech support. The first guy I talked to was very
- unhelpful. I told him my problems with the original driver and how
- I'd downloaded the beta version and that was better, but it still
- hung up. He told me they only support "their" drivers. So I told
- him fine, but that one doesn't work at all. He said he'd have
- someone call me back the next day. They didn't. He did call me back
- the following Monday and apologized. I gave him some more
- information. He said there were about 20 calls in with the same
- symptoms and thus far no solutions, so it didn't look too good. So
- by this time I'm about ready to toss OS/2.
-
- However, the following morning I got a call from a different guy. He
- said I should download the latest driver from the Adaptec bulletin
- board. I told him I already had but the other bozo told me it wasn't
- supported. He said no, he was wrong and he would talk to the other
- guy about it. The new guy said my problem was I should have let OS/2
- grind away on my disk, that it was doing some kind of normal cleanup
- after installation. However, he did say he'd never seen it take
- longer than about 15 or 20 minutes. (I have a 510MB partition, maybe
- it takes longer for a large disk. I did run CHKDSK from the floppy
- and that took about 2 hours so I guess that's reasonable.)
-
- He then said I should NOT use an HPFS partition -- I should remove
- the HPFS partition, re-run fdisk and make it a FAT partition and
- re-install OS/2 from the floppies. I haven't done this yet -- one
- of my reasons for going to OS/2 was HPFS. I may wait for the real
- 2.1 to come out.
-
- I hope someone finds this useful.
-
- Gary
-