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- From: manaster@yu1.yu.edu (Chaim Manaster)
- Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Partition reappeared in new scsi installation (Buslogic)!
- Message-ID: <1334@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 09:49:48 GMT
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- Followup-To: comp.periphs.scsi
- Organization: Yeshiva University
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- Yesterday, I posted a message about the problem I am having,
- installing a new Buslogic 747s EISA scsi board and a MIcropolis
- 2112 drive in addition to the existing Western Digital 1009 ESDI
- controller and Maxtor drive.
-
- I described how I had a partition on the scsi drive that had some
- funny files on it that I could not delete, and how the volume name
- was one I could not change or delete. Then I described how the
- BUslogic device driver would not load at boot up, and how the bios
- refused to disable itself (reasons unkown) on the scsi board when
- so configured from the AMI EISA configuration software. Then, how
- the entire partition just dissappeared, andwas not being recognized
- from DOS or OS/2 (I have one OS/2 partition on the ESDI).
-
- Well today when I turned the system on, there was the missing
- partition again. Chkdsk, again reports all sorts of crosslinks etc?
- But most, NOT ALL of the subdirectories are their, but some are
- gone. Also chkdsk now reports some other crosslinked files (wierd
- names?) that do not appear when you do a DIR. Also the BIOS on the
- Buslogic card seems to be playing peek-a-boo with me.
-
- There seems to be some funny relationship, where the new scsi
- partition is recognized when the bios is there, but when the bios
- does disable itself (i.e. not in the address space, as checked by
- DEBUG) then the scsi partition is not recognized as present.
-
- Has any one seen anything like this wierd behavior before???
-
- I could sure use some help.
-
- Thank you very much for the help.
-
- Henry Manaster
-
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- Article: 1182 of comp.periphs.scsi
- From: manaster@yu1.yu.edu (Chaim Manaster)
- Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: SCSI drive dissappeared! Need help.
- Followup-To: comp.periphs.scsi
-
- I have just added a Buslogic 747s SCSI controller to my ESDI
- system. So I now have a Maxtor ESDI drive on the ESDI controller
- and a Micropolis Fast SCSI II on the SCSI coontroller.
-
- When I first installed, I had some minor problems but what was
- wierd was that the supplied device driver would not get loaded at
- boot up, but I somehow still had access to the scsi drive.
-
- Also, I was not able to disable the bios in the EISA config
- software from AMI (for the AMI enterprise II motherboard) using the
- Buslogic .cfg file supplied for the scsi EISA adapter.
-
- Then after about one day where I was able to store stuff on the
- scsi drive, I now can not access the drive. I can now only access
- the ESDI drive.
- Actually what happened (leaving out some of the trials and
- tribulations) was I created a new dir on the scsi, then tried to cd
- into the new dir, and the system froze. I had to cold boot. Since
- then I can no longer get into the scsi drive.
-
- What is the problem??? Anyone seen anything like this before??
-
- Please help.
-
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- Henry Manaster * EMail: manaster@yu1.yu.edu
- Brooklyn, NY *
- *
- Disclaimer: The above is not necessarily MY opinion nor that
- of anyone else :-) ????!
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