Hello Mike!

Friday March 10 1995, Mike Bilow writes to John Poltorak:

 MB> John Poltorak wrote in a message to All:

 JP>> fine in 16MB but when I add any memory the system won't boot
 JP>> properly - I get a SYS0693 msg at the point where WPS would
 JP>> normally start. This happens whilst using the IBM2SCSI.ADD
 JP>> device driver. If I REM this out, the machine boots normally

 MB> Your POS info is wrong.  IBM2SCSI.ADD checks bit 12 of the slot size field
 MB> in the POS info in order to determine if the card is in a 16-bit or 32-bit
 MB> slot and accordingly either disables or enables access to memory above 16
 MB> MB.  If your ADF was wrong, it is possible that this information would be
 MB> wrong.

Just to let you know that this msg set off a train of thought, which led me
to try my adapter in a different slot .... and IT WORKS!!!! (Yipppeeeeee
:-) )

Many thanks. After several months of anguished system (re)configuration, I
can now settle down to learning something useful.

John

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