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Well, so far I have been unable to install OS/2 Warp Connect on the system with  
the AHA-2940. I have 2 systems. which are almost identical, except for:

AHA-2940		DPT 2124

The DPT card arrived yesterday, that gave me the possibility to build the  
second system. I booted it up and to my surprise, FDISK saw a disk with 31MB  
capacity, instead of the 2069MB that is actually there (HP3725S). That made me  
suspicious. After a couple of reboots, it suddenly showed 1023MB. I decided to  
take the risk and low-level format the disk.

Lo and behold! After a low level format, all was perfect and even OS/2  
installed without a glitch.

That made me wonder, is the low level format of the HP disks to blame for my  
install problems? I tried the same trick on the AHA-2940. To no avail, it just  
doesn't work.  When using HPFS the install process is slow (one file copied in  
1 minute after which some timeout occurs so it seems) and after 2 or 3 files it  
just hangs.

Should I just give up on the AHA-2940? After all, the DPT just works. Or is  
there a way to make this install from CD work? For instance, how do I copy thsi  
OS/2 disk 1 with its non-DOS extra-sectors format? I do have the lates Adaptec  
driver, but I don't want to overwrite it on the original disk. I also don't  
want to create flopy disks form the images on the CD, as I want to be sure that  
the system (SCSI- HP - Toshiba) works, and installation is a good test.
 
So far, I haven't seen the golden tip, and I am on the point of giving up on  
the Adaptec.

Thanks,

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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.