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- From: jlloyd@adapcal.UUCP (John Lloyd)
- Subject: Re: SCSI Drive (Fujitsu 520 MB with Adaptec 1542b) not working.
- Organization: Adaptec Inc., California
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:57:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.165726.25822@adapcal.UUCP>
- References: <TOM.93Jan24082527@dirac.physik.uni-konstanz.de>
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- In article <TOM.93Jan24082527@dirac.physik.uni-konstanz.de> tom@dirac.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Thomas Kirchhoff) writes:
- >After a cold start, I can make partitions with FDISK. Fine.
- >Then I want to format the new drive. Sometimes this process crashes the whole
- >maschine (The LED on the Adaptec controller then stays on). If I make
- >a warm boot, the SCSI drive will not be recognized. I have to shut the power
- >off, boot OS/2 which after CHKDSK just hangs, then I do a second warm boot.
- >This time I will get to WPS back with all the SCSI Drives present.
- >Once I was able to format an SCSI Partition to FAT. I then copied the
- >README file to the drive. Using the TYPE command with the file
- >in an OS/2 Window worked, but clicking on the file to start the E editor
- >didn't. Only the Watch cursor appeared and the controller LED stayed
- >on for ever.
- >What's wrong here ?
- >My system: Symphony motherboard 486DX-50, 16MB
- > 200 MB Seagate IDE
- > 520 MB Fujitsu with Adaptec 1542b
- >
- >By the way: All works fine with Linux, so I guess its not a hardware problem.
- >
- What are the adapter settings? Did you change the DMA transfer speed? I
- have a Fujitsu 520MB as well and have used on two 486/33 motherboards
- (one ISA and one EISA) with the 1542B and 1740 without difficulty. Both
- boards were "clones" but neither had the symphony chipset.
-
- jlloyd@adapcal.com
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