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Date: | Sat, 6 Nov 1999 19:43:10 PDT |
From: | Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com > |
Reply-To: | scoug-help@scoug.com |
To: | scoug-help@scoug.com |
Subject: | SCOUG-Help: Help Desk Request |
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Ray Davison wrote:
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> IDE FAT
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> The disks made from the HD stop with: IC7870.ADD failed to load. OS/2
> is unable to operate your hard disk or diskette drive. ----
That's the AIC7870.ADD Adaptec Device Driver. I've never heard of the
Adaptec 7870 (I opened the file in EPM and read the text) but if it's
Adaptec it must be for SCSI.
Do you have a SCSI card or SCSI chip on your motherboard? If not, open
the CONFIG.SYS file on the floppy and put "REM " at the beginning of the
BASEDEV=AIC7870.ADD line. That way the system won't try to load it.
Then your boot should work.
Make _sure_ you label the floppy as _not_ loading AIC7870.ADD or you'll
(I can think of two reasons why the system is trying to load the
Holler back with the results. :)
- Peter
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get real frustrated if you use it again in a couple of months and your
SCSI stuff doesn't work.
driver. One, you might have SCSI in your system somewhere, like on a
scanner card or on the motherboard even if you don't have any devices
plugged into it. Two, sometimes the sniffers make a mistake and think
there's some hardware in the system that really isn't there.)
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