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- From: rick@sundance.SJSU.EDU (Richard Warner)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Adaptec SCSI Device Driver for Win3.1
- Message-ID: <rick.721329114@sundance>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 17:11:54 GMT
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- darrylo@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata) writes:
-
- >In comp.os.ms-windows.misc, rkl@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (kevin.laux) writes:
-
- >> > If I don't do this, ASPI4DOS and Windows works fine.
- >>
- >> You crashed Windows and are trying to blame the disk corruption on
- >> the ASPI4DOS driver? Aw, come on.
- >>
- >> How are you switching shells? Do you exit Windows, edit System.ini
- >> changing the SHELL= to Progman.exe, startup Windows again, then install the
- >> software? If you're running Progman from Windows with your other shell
- >> running as well, I can see why this would happen all the time.
- >>
- >> Doctor, Doctor! It hurts when I do this!
-
- > Chill out. The problem really is with ASPI4DOS/Windows.
-
- Geez, have you tried something revolutionary like trying the WinASPI
- driver from Adaptec? ASPI4DOS is a *REAL* mode driver, and has to
- deal with CPU mode and a lot of other crap. WinASPI is a protected
- mode interface ....
-
- > As part of another test, I eliminated *ALL* spurious lines out of
- >config.sys and autoexec.bat, *DELETED* *ALL* of C:\WINDOWS, rebooted my
- >machine using the minimal config.sys and autoexec.bat, and tried
- >reinstalling Windows *FROM* *SCRATCH*. Windows crashed and trashed my
- >hard disk if I used ASPI4DOS. I then had to run chkdsk/f to fix the
- >disk. If I use the unsupported SCSIHA.SYS driver, everything works
- >fine, but I lose access to the ASPI drivers, which I need if I ever want
- >to attach a CDROM.
-
- > In case you still think that I'm an idiot, the above was also done
- >under the following circumstances:
-
- >* MSD*S 5.0 was loaded low (no UMBs). Absolutely nothing was loaded
- > into high memory.
-
- >* EMM was excluded in the range A000-DFFF.
-
- >* STACKS were maxed out at 64,512.
-
- >* FILES and BUFFERS were set to 40.
-
- > During other attempts, I've also tried replacing the motherboard
- >(from a 25Mhz 386 to a 33MHz 486) and pulling out all unnecessary cards
- >(serial/parallel I/O, soundcard, etc.). Tonight, I'm probably going to
- >swap out my video card (it's highly unlikely that this could cause any
- >problems, but it does have provision for using an interrupt).
-
- > -- Darryl Okahata
- > Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com
-
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