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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Iomega Bernoulli with AHA-1740
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.035421.9571@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Keywords: SCSI;Bernoulli,Adaptec
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:54:21 GMT
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- Having finally gotten an external cable for the AHA-1740 (hard to
- believe that NOPLACE in the 7th largest city in the country had these
- things), I am trying to get my 44MB Bernoulli Portable to mount
- through the Adaptec controller instead of through the parallel port
- adapter I've been using. Things just don't seem to want to play
- together, and I've tried several things.
-
- Attempt #1 - AHA-1740 as ID#0, Maxtor Panther as ID#1, Bernoulli as
- ID#2; Controller in Standard Mode and using ASPI4DOS 3.0. The system
- does NOT recognize that there is a second drive on the controller, and
- ASPIDISK does not load. The Iomega RCD utilites complain about not
- finding an RCD Adapter and do not load. However, I remember seeing
- someone say someplace that there is a problem with the 3.0 version of
- ASPI4DOS, and that he dropped back to a 2.X version and it worked.
- Not having a 2.X version handy to drop back to, I tried --
-
- Attempt #2 - Everything hardware-wise as above; Controller in Enhanced
- Mode and using ASPIEDOS 1.0. The system recognizes and identifies
- both the Maxtor Panther and the Bernoulli, and ASPIDISK loads.
- However, the Iomega RCD utilites still complain about not finding an
- RCD Adapter and the RCD driver doesn't load, so other than at boot
- when it's looking for devices, the system does not recognize the
- Bernoulli.
-
- So, I'm back to running the Bernoulli off the parallel port adapter (I
- left the Adaptec in Enhanced Mode) so that I can access the Bernoulli.
- Anyone have any experience and/or advice on getting this to work
- together correctly?
-
- I also plan on adding a tape (probably Wangtek 5525ES) and a CD in the
- near future (NEC, perhaps -- or the Pioneer Minichanger?). What
- convolutions is it going to take to get all that to work correctly?
-
- [Geez, isn't SCSI supposed to be EASIER? ;-)]
-
-
- --
- "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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