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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542 and me: no joy
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.202854.1599@news.columbia.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan27.144820.13741@crd.ge.com> <sridhar.728173274@fir.cs.scarolina.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:28:54 GMT
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- Uh oh!
- I have gotten a few of those TRAP E's, here.
- 1542B.
- OS/2 2.1b.
-
- I just assumed that it has nothing to do with disk access, and is simply some
- new OS/2 bugs :-(
-
- In article <sridhar.728173274@fir.cs.scarolina.edu> sridhar@cs.scarolina.edu (M. A. Sridhar) writes:
- >toy@crd.ge.com (Raymond L. Toy) writes:
- >
- >
- >>I borrowed an Adaptec 1542B to use in my machine for a while to see
- >>how things would go. Sadly, they don't go very well.
- >
- >>I made a backup and then reformatted the disk using as suggested in
- >>the manual. Restored from backup, and everything was just fine.
- >>Everything would work just as it used to. Except when I pound on the
- >>disk reading and writing files. Then, BOOM---internal processing error.
- >
- >>It seems that under heavy disk activity, the whole system is flakey.
- >>It causes some program to halt with access violations. When the disk
- >>activity stops, and I rerun the exact same program, everything goes
- >>just fine. Other times the whole thing stops with an internal
- >>processing error. Usually trap e at the same location.
- >
- >>Some specifics:
- >
- >> AHA1542B, default settings, except 5MB/sec DMA. Termination
- >> resistors removed.
- >> Mylex 386 motherboard
- >> Conner internal harddrive, SCSI ID 0, terminated.
- >> Archive tape drive, SCSI ID 4, external, terminated.
- >
- >> Beta aha154x.add from Adaptec BBS. 12/92 version
- >
- >>The SP aha154x.add was really flakey. The beta version was MUCH
- >>better---at least I can get some stuff done if I'm careful to
- >>single-task everything :-(.
- >
- >>Does anyone have any suggestions and/or comments? Since the 1542 is
- >>such a popular controller, I have to believe it MUST work better than
- >>this. I'm doing something stupid I hope.
- >
- >>Thanks for your help!
- >
- >>Ray
- >
- >>--
- >>Ray -----> toy@soho.crd.ge.com
- >>Toy -----> GE CR&D, KW-C407, 0x6270
- >
- >I have never had good success with getting the Adaptec to work. I have
- >precisely the same symptoms as you describe, and with a similer
- >environment -- only I have *two* IDE drives on my IDE controller, in
- >addition to the SCSI drive. And I have a Wangtek tape drive. I have
- >just about given up on getting the SCSI drive to work under OS/2 for
- >now; I'm hoping that the 2.1 beta will behave better.
- >
- >Oh -- I do know this is not a hardware problem. The system works fine
- >under DOS and Dell Unix.
- >
- >Sridhar
- >--
- >M. A. Sridhar |
- >Department of Computer Science | sridhar@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu (Internet)
- >University of South Carolina | (803) 777-2427 (Ma Bell)
- >Columbia, SC 29208 | (803) 777-3767 (Fax)
- >--
- >M. A. Sridhar |
- >Department of Computer Science | sridhar@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu (Internet)
- >University of South Carolina | (803) 777-2427 (Ma Bell)
- >Columbia, SC 29208 | (803) 777-3767 (Fax)
-
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