ballard@cohesive.UUCP (John Ballard) (04/13/90)
I am having a problem getting Windows/386 to run on my system. I have an Everex Step 386/33 with 4Meg of memory and 128K of cache. I have a Logix VGA card and an adaptec 1542A SCSI/floppy disk controller. The tech support people at microsoft are currently guessing that there is an interaction between windows/386 and my SCSI controller, they say that windows/386 is very hardware sensitive. They seem to think that anything other than a standard AT compatible MFM/RLL controller is very unusual. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, John P.S. The system has been running windows/286 for some time without problems.
anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) (04/14/90)
In article <641@cohesive.UUCP>, ballard@cohesive.UUCP (John Ballard) writes... ]I am having a problem getting Windows/386 to run on my system. I have ]an Everex Step 386/33 with 4Meg of memory and 128K of cache. I have ]a Logix VGA card and an adaptec 1542A SCSI/floppy disk controller. ]The tech support people at microsoft are currently guessing that there ]is an interaction between windows/386 and my SCSI controller, they say ]that windows/386 is very hardware sensitive. They seem to think that ]anything other than a standard AT compatible MFM/RLL controller is very ]unusual. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. I have a WD7000FASST SCSI controller in a Club Hawk 1 (386/33MHz, 128K cache, 8MB memory), and I had problems with Windows/386. My calls to Microsoft yielded results similar to yours. My controller comes with software from Columbia Data Products, and one of the drivers has options for use with Windows. I tried all possible combinations. Some didn't work at all, some worked kind of, none worked reliably. I went back to Windows/286, which at least ran in a reasonably stable way. Windows 3 better fix all this or I will be truly annoyed. ==Jess Anderson===Academic Computing Center=====Univ. Wisconsin-Madison===== | Work: Rm. 2160, 1210 West Dayton St., Madison WI 53706, Ph. 608/263-6988 | | Home: 2838 Stevens St., 53705, 608/238-4833 Bitnet: anderson@wiscmacc | ==Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu====UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson==