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In <1992Nov17.183627.22224@nas.nasa.gov> tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten) writes:

>In article <Mennecke.5.721988330@nw42.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de> Mennecke@nw42.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de (Juergen Mennecke) writes:
>>I'm trying to set up Windows 3.1 on a '486-machine, 16 Meg, with an Adaptec 
>>1542b SCSI host adapter and a Conner SCSI disk.
>>
>>... I'm not happy with what Windows does. If I specify any swapfile, 
>>permanent or not, it won't boot. When I open a DOS box, Windows *exits* 
>>silently (leaving me with a quick way to exit Windows without using a 
>>utility, but sans Dos-Box :-|).

>Your startup problems sound familiar to me.  I have a 486 EISA machine
>with an Adaptec 1740.  I couldn't get Windows 3.1 to work in enhanced
>mode without enabling Windows double buffering until I got Adaptec's
>latest fixed version of aspi4dos.sys.  Adaptec's upgrade utility made
>it for me, and its directory entry looks like:

Well, you just confused the hell out of me.  The documentation with my
card says that you don't use ASPI4DOS.SYS when you're trying to run
the AHA-1740 in Enhanced Mode.  The driver you should be using is
called ASPIEDOS.SYS.  The ASPI4DOS.SYS is for AHA-154x boards and for
the AHA-174x cards running in Standard mode.

I have an Adaptec 1740 (with version 3.0 of ASPI4DOS and version 1.0
of ASPIEDOS) and it has worked like a hose in both Standard and
Enhanced modes.  The only problem I've had is getting it to play with
my Bernoulli.

>	ASPI4DOS SYS     10900 04-18-92  12:00p

>It is version 3.0a, and you can get the upgrade through a clever method
>Adaptec uses to protect their licenses.  There is an executible program
>freely available from Adaptec which checks for its various software
>packages and decripts and applies upgrades for those it finds.  I got
>the program from Adaptec's bulletin board system, but considering your
>internet address, you may want to try your local Adaptec dealer, or some
>anonymous FTP site.

>With the new driver and the following fragment in my config.sys, all is
>now well for me.

>	stacks= 9,256
>	device = himem.sys /eisa
>	device = emm386.exe /noems
>	device = aspi4dos.sys
>	dos = high,umb

Well, mine is a little bit different.  I use QEMM 6.03 instead of
HIMEM and EMM386, I use ASPIEDOS instead of ASPI4DOS, and I load
things with the Adaptec driver first, the QEMM driver second, and
everything else goes high.

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