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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 problem with Adaptec 1542B ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.180556.14976@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Aug23.170446.7679@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 18:05:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug23.170446.7679@news.columbia.edu> cl45@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Ching-Tse Liu) writes:
- > I have just replaced my ide drive with a SCSI drive using
- >Adaptec 1452B. When I tried to reinstall OS/2 on the new drive, it
- >had problem reading disk #9 till I pressed retry several times. Once
- >it was installed, everything seemed to be fine except when I tried
- >to read, copy from, format drive a: when I performed other tasks in the
- >foreground. Error message would come up to inform me that there was
- >a problem with the drive a: response. Now if I do copy from a: in the
- >foreground, everything is fine. And the overall response under multitasking
- >seems to me slower than when I had an IDE drive.
- > Does anyone know if OS/2 2.0 has a problem with Adaptec 1452B
- >with Seagate ST41200N SCSI hard drive, or the floppy controller on the
- >Adaptec ? I have an ISA 486-50 with AMI bios. Everyting works fine
- >like before except the problems I mentioned above.
-
- Yes. There are certain floppy timing problems, as you discovered.
- They have been fixed. You can download the fix via anonymous ftp from
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. Look for ahabeta.zoo, right now in /pub/downloads.
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