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From: Jeff.Tensly@p1.f477.n104.z1.METRONET.ORG (Jeff Tensly)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Scsi Hd Problem
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Date: 24 Mar 91 13:01:00 GMT
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 DM> Ah, one important detail I left out.  The host adapter is
 DM> the Seagate ST-01. 

 DM> So... What can I do to make things work right.  I'm aware
 DM> of the problems with SCSI drives & Windows, but I THOUGHT
 DM> that VirtualHDIrq=off was supposed to fix that.  Argh!

 DM> All help is greatly appreciated..   Thanks in advance..

That may be the whole problem, the ST-01 is a 8 bit card and windows did not like that on my end.  I switched up to a 16 bit SCSI controller and the problem on my end went away.  Before I could not run in 386 enhanced mode, now it defaults to that right away.  Using the Always Tech card.  Don't know if that is what is happening on your end or not but it sure solved all my windows problems on a 386/25 machine.  If you do change up to a 16 bit card you will have to re-lowlevel the drive, which is best done f






rom debug and then fdisk/format it from dos with the new card in place.

73 De Jeff, CEO/SysOp Jaguar's Networking Labs (303)377-2371

 

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