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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Win31 and Adaptec SCSI host - nothing but trouble...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.002225.3397@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Keywords: SCSI, Bus Master DMA
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <Mennecke.5.721988330@nw42.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de> <1992Nov17.183627.22224@nas.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:22:25 GMT
- Lines: 57
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- In <1992Nov17.183627.22224@nas.nasa.gov> tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten) writes:
-
- >In article <Mennecke.5.721988330@nw42.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de> Mennecke@nw42.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de (Juergen Mennecke) writes:
- >>I'm trying to set up Windows 3.1 on a '486-machine, 16 Meg, with an Adaptec
- >>1542b SCSI host adapter and a Conner SCSI disk.
- >>
- >>... I'm not happy with what Windows does. If I specify any swapfile,
- >>permanent or not, it won't boot. When I open a DOS box, Windows *exits*
- >>silently (leaving me with a quick way to exit Windows without using a
- >>utility, but sans Dos-Box :-|).
-
- >Your startup problems sound familiar to me. I have a 486 EISA machine
- >with an Adaptec 1740. I couldn't get Windows 3.1 to work in enhanced
- >mode without enabling Windows double buffering until I got Adaptec's
- >latest fixed version of aspi4dos.sys. Adaptec's upgrade utility made
- >it for me, and its directory entry looks like:
-
- Well, you just confused the hell out of me. The documentation with my
- card says that you don't use ASPI4DOS.SYS when you're trying to run
- the AHA-1740 in Enhanced Mode. The driver you should be using is
- called ASPIEDOS.SYS. The ASPI4DOS.SYS is for AHA-154x boards and for
- the AHA-174x cards running in Standard mode.
-
- I have an Adaptec 1740 (with version 3.0 of ASPI4DOS and version 1.0
- of ASPIEDOS) and it has worked like a hose in both Standard and
- Enhanced modes. The only problem I've had is getting it to play with
- my Bernoulli.
-
- > ASPI4DOS SYS 10900 04-18-92 12:00p
-
- >It is version 3.0a, and you can get the upgrade through a clever method
- >Adaptec uses to protect their licenses. There is an executible program
- >freely available from Adaptec which checks for its various software
- >packages and decripts and applies upgrades for those it finds. I got
- >the program from Adaptec's bulletin board system, but considering your
- >internet address, you may want to try your local Adaptec dealer, or some
- >anonymous FTP site.
-
- >With the new driver and the following fragment in my config.sys, all is
- >now well for me.
-
- > stacks= 9,256
- > device = himem.sys /eisa
- > device = emm386.exe /noems
- > device = aspi4dos.sys
- > dos = high,umb
-
- Well, mine is a little bit different. I use QEMM 6.03 instead of
- HIMEM and EMM386, I use ASPIEDOS instead of ASPI4DOS, and I load
- things with the Adaptec driver first, the QEMM driver second, and
- everything else goes high.
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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