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- From: moncrg@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Gregory Donald Moncreaff)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: microsoft fixes/updates -> compuserve vs ftp
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- Date: 13 Aug 92 12:56:23 GMT
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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- Are there drivers updates on any of the compuserve
- libraries that have take case of any of the problems
- listed on the 0692 hardware compatability list?
-
- specifically for the tmc-16x0 future domain controllers?
-
- from the 0692 hardware compatability list...
-
- SCSI(R)
-
- Adaptec
- AHA-1540b
- AHA-1542b
- AHA-1640
- AHA-1740
-
- Future Domain
- TMC-845
- TMC-850, TMC-850M(ER)
- MCS-700 (7)
- TMC-1660 (8)
- TMC-1680 (9)
- TMC-7000EX
-
- IBM
- IBM SCSI Host Adapter (10)
-
- Maynard
- 16 Bit SCSI Adapter (11)
-
- NCR
- NCR 53C700
-
- (7) A driver that supports both Setup and File I/O for the Future
- Domain MCS-700, and TMC-16X0 series controllers will be posted to
- CompuServe in the WINNT forum, Lib 2 "Fixes and Updates".
- (8) Same as Footnote 7
- (9) Same as Footnote 7
- (10) Earlier versions of this controller have proven to have problems
- with various CD-Rom drives. The Chinon CDX-431 and NEC Intersect
- CDR-73 are known to work with this version of controller.
- (11) The Maynard SCSI Adapter can be used as a general purpose SCSI
- controller for all tasks but graphical setup.
-
- ... without eisa or mca the AHA-1[67]40, TMC-7000ex, MCS-700
- and presuably the IBM adapters are useless. the AHA-154x
- series don't work very well (see below) and have horror
- stories about them screwing up sound cards, possibly due
- to the fact that they are bus-mastering controllers. the
- TMC-8xx contollers are 8bit cards and thus are probably
- nightmares to configure IRQ wise. the only item without a flag
- againsdt it it the ncr. is that a contoller or a chipset?
- i hear that corelscsi uses an ncr chipset, is it the same?
-
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-
- Adaptec AHA 1542B Driver Can Cause Fatal System Error:
-
- Summary:
- There is a known problem with the Adaptec AHA-1542B driver which
- causes fatal system errors under some circumstances.
-
- More Info:
- The problem is triggered by simultaneous I/O with the floppy and the hard
- disk. This will be corrected in the next release. To avoid this you may
- want to use an alternative floppy controller and disable he one on the
- Adaptec.
-
- ************************************************************************
-
- *** Fatal System Error: 0x00000069
- *** Phase 1 I/O initialization failed.
-
- ************************************************************************
-
- Error 0x00000069
-
- This is a phase one initialization error, which happens when Windows NT
- tries to talk with the HD controller. It can be caused by any number of
- things. Things to try:
-
- * If the card allows, slow down the DMA transfer rate.
-
- * Make sure both ends of the SCSI bus are terminated.
-
- * Make sure there are no IRQ, or memory address conflicts.
-
- * Make sure you're aren't using a faulty or un-supported driver i.e. the FD
- 1680 SCSI controller is supported, but there is a problem with that driver
- which will be fixed and posted on WinNT, Lib 2.
-
-
- ************************************************************************
-
- btw, if you managed to make it this far, the contoller i
- am currently using is a wd7000fast, which uses a
- wd33c93a protocol chip. there does seem to be a driver,
- /i386/wd33c93.sys on the cd-rom but i still get
- the 0x0..069 error when starting up NT right
- after it loads all the scsi drivers. the driver
- probably isn't mature yet...
-
- (i wish IDE had matured 3 years earlier so i would
- never have had to make contact with the hellish
- world of scsi)
-