neese@adaptx1.UUCP (06/18/91)
>/* ---------- "Help. 1542b & Maxtor & file corrupt" ---------- */ >I just resently bought a Adaptec 1542b and a Maxtor xt-8760s drive. >The problem that I am having is file corruption. If I xcopy from >one partition to another, or xcopy many floppy disks to a partition, >I have a 50% chance that the partition copy to will be trashed. >(FAT/directory table becomes corrupted.) > >The 1542b is at the default configuration and the only change needed >on the drive was to change it from target 6 to 0. I'm running this >in a 386/33 using Dos 5.0 with the aspi4dos.sys driver loaded. The >drive is broken up into four 160meg partitions. > >I am new to the SCSI world and unsure of what changes I should try. >Any help/tips you could give me will be most appreciated. Try moving the 1542 DMA rate to 5.0MB/sec. Most recent cards go out with the DMA speed set to 5.7MB/sec. If this is the only drive in the system and you are not running anything that puts the 386 into virtual mode, you do not need the ASPI4DOS driver loaded, so try taking that out and see what happens. Roy Neese Adaptec Senior SCSI Applications Engineer UUCP @ neese@adaptex uunet!cs.utexas.edu!utacfd!merch!adaptex!neese