Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!sjsca4!poffen From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 kick's out on my system... Message-ID: <1990Aug30.193713.19344@sj.ate.slb.com> Date: 30 Aug 90 19:37:13 GMT References: Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA. Lines: 23 In article dorsai@pawl.rpi.edu (G. Donald Moncreaff) writes: > > reguarding the 386enh problem: the problem lies in >configuration, not hardware, so the wd 7000-fasst2 scsi >controller works fine. the major problem is that windows >setup (install) like to place its drivers ahead of the sst >drivers in config.sys; you need to make the modifications by >hand to correct for this. other than that cdp, the people >how supplied the software drivers for sst, recommend you use >the /w /oi /b switches on the sstbio.sys driver and also recommend >that you don't use smartdrv.sys. > > anyhow, the scsi controller works fine, it's the people who >document the software that are broken :) > And of course this wouldn't have happened with an Adaptec 1542 since it does not require drivers. Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254