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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: <1992Nov19.212127.1555@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> <1992Nov18.002225.3397@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Nov18.033044.7634@nas.nasa.gov>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:21:27 GMT
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- In <1992Nov18.033044.7634@nas.nasa.gov> tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Nov18.002225.3397@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- >>In <1992Nov17.183627.22224@nas.nasa.gov> tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten) writes:
- >>
- >>>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.
- >>
- >>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 didn't say I wanted to run my 1740 in Enhanced Mode, I said I wanted
- >to run Windows 3.1 in enhanced mode (i.e. 386 enhanced mode, as
- >defined on page 7 of the Windows User's Guide). I use aspi4dos.sys
- >because I want to run the 1740 in Standard Mode (for reasons of Jolitz
- >Unix compatibility).
-
- Hmmm, rereading, it wasn't real clear just WHAT you were talking about
- running in enhanced mode.
-
- >Just a reminder - the "latest fixed version of aspi4dos.sys" is 3.0a
- >(that was the point of my original posting).
-
- Still curious. When this new version loads, does it identify itself
- as version 3.0 or as version 3.0a? Mine identifies itself as being
- Version 3.0 and works fine with Window Enhanced Mode and unbuffered.
- Do they tell you what else the (a) changed?
-
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