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Article #26Re: Giving up on AHA-2940 with OS/2
From: Gene Miller
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 19:51
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 19:51
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In <DHJFpr.91G@RnA.NL>, Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL writes: >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, > >-- >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. > There was a fix for the Adaptec 2940 on fixpak 5 if it is an "older" Adaptec 2940. If it's a newer 2940 look for a fix at ftp://www.adaptec.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!ausnews.austin.ibm.com!usenet From: spardue@vnet.ibm.com (Gene Miller) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: Giving up on AHA-2940 with OS/2 Date: 6 Nov 1995 19:51:26 GMT Organization: IBM OS/2 Developer Support Message-ID: <47lovu$1dl2@ausnews.austin.ibm.com> References: <DHJFpr.91G@RnA.NL> Reply-To: spardue@vnet.ibm.com (Gene Miller) NNTP-Posting-Host: pardue.austin.ibm.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.02