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In article <TOM.93Jan24082527@dirac.physik.uni-konstanz.de> tom@dirac.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Thomas Kirchhoff) writes:
>After a cold start, I can make partitions with FDISK. Fine.
>Then I want to format the new drive. Sometimes this process crashes the whole
>maschine (The LED on the Adaptec controller then stays on). If I make
>a warm boot, the SCSI drive will not be recognized. I have to shut the power
>off, boot OS/2 which after CHKDSK just hangs, then I do a second warm boot.
>This time I will get to WPS back with all the SCSI Drives present.
>Once I was able to format an SCSI Partition to FAT. I then copied the 
>README file to the drive. Using the TYPE command with the file
>in an OS/2 Window worked, but clicking on the file to start the E editor
>didn't. Only the Watch cursor appeared and the controller LED stayed 
>on for ever.
>What's wrong here ?
>My system: Symphony motherboard 486DX-50, 16MB
>           200 MB Seagate IDE
>	   520 MB Fujitsu with Adaptec 1542b
>
>By the way: All works fine with Linux, so I guess its not a hardware problem.
>
What are the adapter settings? Did you change the DMA transfer speed? I
have a Fujitsu 520MB as well and have used on two 486/33 motherboards
(one ISA and one EISA) with the 1542B and 1740 without difficulty. Both
boards were "clones" but neither had the symphony chipset.

jlloyd@adapcal.com