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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!metter!openage!gryphon
- From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
- Subject: Re: SCO+FutureDomain
- Organization: Open Age, Inc.
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:57:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.165733.1237@openage.openage.com>
- References: <1561@outland.UUCP>
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- mike@adpgate.UUCP ( ADP OPuS) writes:
-
- >I have installed SCO UNIX system V ver 3.2.4 and _every_
- >time I go through either shutdown or haltsys , take down my
- >machine (i.e. power down), when I come back up I either have:
-
- > a. corrupted root file system that must be fixed
- > with fsck (booting my machine automatically 'determines' this)
- > or b. I simply can't boot at all, I stop on "J", which is the last
- > thing before the boot-disk boots.
-
- > does anyone have a similar problem, I have this configuration:
- > 386-25sx; FutureDomain TMC885 controller, Maxtor 3280xt drive(s)
-
- >any feed back would be appreciated...thank you
-
- You might want to check the bus timing on that. If the FD is like the
- Adaptec 1542-b you can set it for different DMA xfer rates, you may also
- be able to adjust bus timing in the system BIOS.
-
- This would be a good start.
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