donm@mstr.hgc.edu (don merusi) (02/16/91)
I have just installed a Seagate ST296N SCSI disk with a Dandy 3400 (Future Domain) controller. The SCSI controller has its own BIOS and apparently that gets activated in addition to my BIOS (Award). My system is a Vendex Headstart III, a 286 IBM clone. Also using DOS V3.3, so the 84 mb is partitioned into 3 disks (D-F). Well, for some reason, if you copy a large file (100K bytes?) from my hard disk C to the new SCSI disk D, E or F, you will get one of those annoying DOS message, Abort,Retry,Fail writing to D .... I talked with the disk company they didn't seem to know what was going on. The message might appear 5 or six times during the transfer. I always hit "R" to retry the copy. Can anybody out there help me with trying to find out what's going on with this thing?