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Date:	Mon, 17 Jun 2002 10:57:39 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Trap inquiry (final note)

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In <200206170925.AA249495892@oco.net>, on 06/17/02
at 08:25 AM, "mrakijas" said:

>rebooted and copied all files back over from drive 2 to 1. No change!
>Drive 1 still traps on shutdown. I guess I have to chalk this one up to
>the (OS/2?) computer gods not liking the one drive. More likely, I guess
>that some timing or tolerance changed just enough to screw things up.

That would be my guess. Have you tried running the drive non-busmastered
or otherwise derating it via BIOS on driver options?

I may have mentioned that I recently had a similar problem on one of my
MUT boxes. It would lock up hard during chkdsk. The interesting aspect
was that the lockup was related to amount of data in the partition. After
trying a variety of alternates, there were only two workable fixes.
Derate the SCSI bus or swap in a slower SCSI card. There was something
about the intensity of the chkdsk's disk access that probably caused a
busmaster DMA failure. Other than the chkdsk failure, the box ran fine.

Steven

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