NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/misc/39092

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From: [e-mail] (Mark Pendrith)
Subject: Re: IDE + SCSI HD & GA + SP, is this possible
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Martin Fredfeldt) writes:
>Hello and greetings to all....
>
>What I really wold like to know is :
>
>    are there _anyone_ at all there has been able to combine
>    the in subj. stated combinatiob to work ??
>
>let me put it this way. I have tried - no luck.
>
>[longer version coming up, very sad and depressing]
>
>current system :
>
>    40 mzh 386, OPTI chipset, AMI bios
>    124 megs seagate IDE HD
>    134 megs Fujisu SCSI HD
>
>The thing that goes wrong :
>
>    when i trie to install os2 i get pass the install disk, pass
>the logo on disk 1, but then i simply get the error
>
>    "FDISK unsuccesful, please coorect the problem and restart"
>     (and a lot more), whereafter I'm presented whith a prompt.
>
>ok, next step, I remove the power cable to the SCSI hd and retries.
>No problems. Boot maneger, 30 mb dos partetion (c:) and 93 mb hpfs os2
>(D:), works like a charm.
>Allright !!, i give the SCSI HD it's power back and starts os2 from my
>hpfs partetion. The error
>
>    cannot find the file "d:\os2\system\country.sys" specified
>    ind the country statement in the config.sys
>
>    system halted, please correct etc. etc. etc..
>
>i disable my scsi it works fine, when booting on my dos parttetion it
>works great wtih scsi and all...
>I have tried everything. I even had every card out of my machine
>listing IRQ's and BIOS adresses in case there should be any conflict.
>    I replaced my ST01 ( Yes it sucks) SCSI controller with a
>Future Domain 860 clone (it is a OEM product, with basicly two chips,
> a Future domain bios and a Future domain VSLI chip).
>
>This has  haunted me for weeks and I'm really out on the edge by
>now...
>    Is it me, is my system, do i need a driver, WHHHAT ?
>
>clues, hint, information anything would be greatly apriciated, here
>email, fax, dosn't matter !!
>
>    - Martin
>      [e-mail]
>      Fax + 45 46 73 34 45

martin:

i have a similar set-up; for the IDE i have a 210MB rodime drive, for
the scsi, a FD TMC-875 driving a syquest removable 44MB.

your problem happened to me as well when i "upgraded" to the CSD. it
was a little easier in my case to cope with... i only had to make
sure that i didn't have a cartridge in the syquest drive to get it
(the CSD) past the FDISK error, and then to make sure i disn't have
a cartridge in the drive when booting to get past the "country.sys"
error.

the problem seems to be confined to the CSD, so relax, its not your
system (or mine - the problem went away when i went back to GA). i
went back to the GA (with the "PJ03686" kernel) because of other
problems i was experiencing with the CSD.

one thing i did find however was that the new "improved" version of
the FD8XX.ADD file supplied with the CSD had some weird behaviours
(such as causing the FORMAT D: command to die with a "integer divide
by 0" run-time error msg), with i fixed by replacing the CSD driver
with the driver from the GA diskettes. you might want to try replacing
your scsi driver with the GA version, too, and see if this helps at all.

sorry i haven't got a solution to your CSD problem (unless you consider
junking the CSD a solution), but i hope at least this puts your mind at
rest with regard to your hardware set-up. maybe the next release of code
will sort these problems out. keep your fingers crossed...

- Mark Pendrith

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