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From: donm@mstr.hgc.edu (don merusi)
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Subject: Getting Abort,Retry,Fail Messages with SCSI
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Date: 16 Feb 91 02:34:47 GMT
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I have just installed a Seagate ST296N SCSI disk with a Dandy 3400
(Future Domain) controller. The SCSI controller has its own BIOS and
apparently that gets activated in addition to my BIOS (Award). My system
is a Vendex Headstart III, a 286 IBM clone. Also using DOS V3.3, so the
84 mb is partitioned into 3 disks (D-F). Well, for some reason, if you
copy a large file (100K bytes?) from my hard disk C to the new SCSI disk D, E or F, you will get one of those annoying DOS message, Abort,Retry,Fail writing
to D .... I talked with the disk company they didn't seem to know what was
going on. The message might appear 5 or six times during the transfer. I always
hit "R" to retry the copy. Can anybody out there help me with trying to find
out what's going on with this thing?