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Article #139Re: Dual SCSI controller problem
From: Eric Decker
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1995 21:46
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1995 21:46
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>In an attempt to get faster backups, I moved the hard disk to >controller B (which has internal connection only.) >Everything works fine under DOS, but when I bring up w4wg 3.11, >I get the message the file KRNL386.EXE could not be found. >Using DOS to examine the directory c:\win\system, the file is there. > >If I revert to the original setup, w4wg works fine again. > >Has anybody seen this before? . . . or have any ideas? Probably a quirk of DOS expecting the boot device to be on the default, Controller A, SCSI bus. Switch the HD to A, put whatever you can on B. An adapter to convert the internal port of Controller B to external use might well be worth it. Running a streaming tape drive on a second scsi bus is good, especially on those long tape spool operations. Using a dual processor twin channel HA is one slot better than using two HA. Use of a twin channel card without the actual dual processors will not gain as much performance. AdvanSys has a series of twin channel cards which offer twin 50 MHZ processors. I reckon NT would be plenty swift if stripped across two, three or even four EISA or PCI controllers. I'd stick with the EISA, for now, to increase the reliability factor. Eric
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.crso.com!edecker From: Eric Decker <edecker@frontier.canrem.com> Organization: CRS Online's Frontier Subject: Re: Dual SCSI controller problem Message-ID: <091295.21460378075.n@frontier.canrem.com> Date: 09 Dec 1995 21:46:03 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.periphs.scsi