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Hello world,

I have the following physical setup:

1) TMC PCI (Triton) Motherboard with 256 k pipelined burts cache, Award BIOS  
4.50PG, Award PnP extensions 1.0a, 32MB RAM, Pentium 90
2) Adaptec 2940 Fast SCSI (not wide)
	a) SCSI ID #0: HP 3725S 2.4GB (raw) SCSI disk
	b) SCSI ID #2: Toshiba 3601 quadspeed CD-ROM
3) Teac floppy drive
4) Diamond Stealth Video 4MB VRAM (3400)
5) SMC Etherlite card, not connected to anything

	I have been able to install DOS/Windows 3.11 and Windows/NT on this  
system (though the latter went wrong many times before it succeeded once  
(luck?))

Problems:

	I have so far been unable to install OS/2 Warp Connect onto it.  
Whatever I do, the installation somewhere locks up either with a 'not ready  
SYS000039' problem on the CD or a 'drive not functioning SYS000049' problem on  
the HD. The problem appears at the first or second file the installation wants  
to write to the disk when I use HPFS file system, and somewhere during disk 3,  
4, 5 or 6 (this is virtual of course, I am installing from CD) while using FAT.  
Of course, I have replace aic7800.add from disk #1 by the one from  
ftp.adaptec.com. A 'retry' will get me a bit further under FAT, but at some  
moment the light of the drive will burn permanently and nothing works anymore.

	But even most of the times a WinNT install will hang while writing  
something to the disk. I haven't installed aic78xx.sys from ftp.adaptec.com.

	I get the feeling something is wrong with my SCSI/Adaptec setup. But  
(complication) I seem to have lost my Adaptec disk #1 and the Adaptec user  
manual (I do have 2 books and 2 disks, which means I am short of one book and  
one disk). I have the CD-ROM at the end of the chain with termination enabled.  
I have termination enabled on the card also. Whe I have seen problems, I can  
reset, and sometimes the card won't show the HP drive.

	What I'd really like to know is:

a) How can I test my setup, e.g. under DOS?
b) What is a 'normally to succeed' working setup for this combination? What  
about the BIOS settings on DOS drives >1G? 

The target for this system is OS/2 Warp Connect. but I might run into the same  
problem when I am going to create another system with WinNT and NEXTSTEP.  
Currently, OS/2 has priority, though. Anything that will get it to work  
reliably on this setup is welcome.

Thanks,

-- 
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.