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Re: Giving up on AHA-2940 with OS/2

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From: Gene Miller
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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From: spardue@vnet.ibm.com (Gene Miller)
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Subject: Re: Giving up on AHA-2940 with OS/2
Date: 6 Nov 1995 19:51:26 GMT
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