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Date:	Fri, 15 Feb 2002 21:41:03 PST7
From:	Steve Carter <scarter@vcnet.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: eCS GA Installation failure

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There's a bug in the install routine for Symbios-based SCSI
controllers where the basdev=sym????.add statement is
omitted from config.sys

You must manually enter the proper basdev= before rebooting.

See p61 of:

http://www.ecomstation.nl/files/ecs-ga-pdf-a5.pdf

for the details. If you don't have this Mensys manual yet,
now is good time to get a copy.

I don't know if this is YOUR problem,
but it is a problem -- it bit ME!
Cost me a couple of hours, dammit.

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On 2/15/02, Tom Brown wrote, in part:
>
>I am having to reinstall from scratch since a major screw-up wiped out
>all of my boot partitions. If I boot from the CD, I get a message that
>the system cannot operate my hard drive, even though I have selected the
>SYM_HI SCSI driver.
>
>If I boot from diskettes, it gets to the end of the third diskette and
>then I get a whole string of errors that it can't find files on the CD.
>The error messages rip past too fast fo me to see the first one, so I
>can't figure out what is wrong.
>
>My system is as follows:
>
>Tyan S2460 motherboard with a single Athlon 1.2 GHz cpu
>256 MB ECC RAM
>Symbios LSI21002 Dual Channel SCSI host adapter:
>(BIOS set to boot from channel B)
>Channel A:
> Plextor CD-ROM
> Plextor CD-RW
> Conner CTMS3200 tape drive
>Channel B:
> IBM 9.1 GB hard drive
> IBM 36 GB hard drive
> Ecrix VXA tape drive
>Matrox G450 32MB video card
>IBM 10/100 NIC
>SB Live! Value sound card
>
>There are NO IDE devices.
>
>I am trying to install to an HPFS partition on the 9.1 GB drive.
>
>Does anyone out there have any suggestions? I can't log on to
>ecomstation.com to download any fixes to help in this situation because
>my password is buried in a data partition on the subject system.
>
>Thanks for any help that you can provide! I'm getting desperate
>(forced to use a Windoze system to send this)!

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