SCSI was the culprit

[Vaughn Treude]

You mean initio?  I hadn't thought of contacting the company, because the card
is three years old.  It did work quite well at first.  Actually, the brand 
name's a SIIG, which I guess the latter was reselling under its own name.  (I 
bought a new SIIG SCSI from Fry's, an AP-10, and I can't find any drivers for 
it - so I may habe to take that one back.) The old initio card was in a Win98 
system that was in a 10-year-old case and had numerous problems, many of 
which seemed to be hardware-related (perhaps the power supply was getting 
flakey; as it runs much better in the new case.)

Or if you mean Mandrake, I didn't contact them because I didn't buy support, 
and in any case, I assumed it was a hardware problem.  Sadly enough, my tale  
of woe continues:  Red Hat 9 is still not stable, and Mandrake 9.1 won't 
allow me to communicate over the network, even after reinstalling as a 
standard workstation with a normal security level.  So there may be problems 
with my motherboard as well.  Soyo (the motherboard manufacturer) has 
responded to my pleas, but the message was the standard "reset the CMOS" 
thing, which I don't expect to work, but I may end up trying anyway.

Vaughn 

On Monday 28 April 2003 21:52, you wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 16:39, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > Hello again:
> > Thanks to Steve and Bryce for their suggestions on my system
> > freeze/install hang problem.  The initio SCSI card did seem to be the
> > problem.  I removed it and was able to install Mandrake 9.1.  I put it
> > back in and Mandrake 9.1 did not recognize it.  On the one hand, I'd like
> > to access my Jaz drive.  On the other hand, the system is stable...
>
> ------
> oddly enough, the company is quite supportive of the products (or had
> been when I had to contact them)
>
> Craig
>
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