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From: ccocsnp@prism.gatech.EDU (ccocsnp Nick Pope  (IBM Technical Support))
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Trouble with SCSICNTL.EXE
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Date: 6 Mar 91 04:54:23 GMT
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I recently aquired Roy Neese's SCSICNTL.EXE. I was quite happy to finally find
it and get it to my machine.  However, upon running it, I found that it would
not work.

I get the initial screen (disclaimer). After hitting return, I get:
	Could not Get local inquiry data from the adapter.

I have set the jumpers to the factory default positions, aand I've downloaded
SCSICNTL.EXE 4 times.

And to top that off, It ran succesfully once!!! Not the first time I ran it
either.  I cannot duplicate what I did to make it run successfully.  After
trying it 10 or 12 times, it ran and I could play around.  It found my hard
drive and everything.  But I have since tried at least 50 times to run it
without success.  I've run it from A:, B:, C:, after running SETSCSI. 
I am getting frutrated.  Here is my configuration:

	Micronics 386/33 ASIC with 64k cache and 4megs.
	Adaptec 1542B.  Maxtor 8760S.  PowerGraph VGA.

ANy help or suggestions that anyone could offer would be much appreciated.
I would really like to reformat My MAXTOR with 1K blocks.

							Nick Pope