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Date:	Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:35:43 PST8
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Actiontec modem setup success?--IRQ

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Wayne wrote:

> Well, I celebrated too soon yesterday. Today I put the covers back on and
> brought it up under WinXP. Both scsi drives sync'd at 160mb. Used it for 2
> hours and it worked fine, then rebooted to bring up Warp, but now the
> address 2 scsi drive is completely absent from the scsi adapter bios
> display... I'm back to square 1.

This sounds pretty weird to me, but then sometimes there will be something
(of a hardware nature) that OS/2 critically objects to but Win-32 lets slide --
or vice versa. My hunch is that Steven was on the right track, re some bad or
marginal h/w item. One thing I can tell you is not to dismiss the possibility of
a bad cable or connector. I had a fancy custom SCSI cable, with connectors
for 3 HDD's, even though I never used more than 2. At some point, one of the
two HDD's began having sync connection | sync rate problems, but they were
random and intermittent. Replacing that whole cable (Granite Digital) with
another of the same type would have been an expensive proposition. But,
apparently, it wasn't the cable as a whole that was acting up, and definitely
not the H/D. When I switched to the 3rd., previously unused connector on the
cable, the problem went away and hasn't returned. (It has been a year or more
since then.)

> And, I don't have the slightest inkling why my modem is (or at least WAS)
> irq 3 yesterday, irq 11 and 5 on prior occasions, and irq 16 under WinXP. I
> keep hoping someone on this forum can clue me in on this stuff.

I would not put any stock at all into what the Win-32 equivalent of Hardware
Mgr. reports to you. I have seen it showing *every* device as being supported
by one of two IRQs !! Yeah, I've heard of IRQ sharing, but that has to be
impossible -- right ? And they have some kind of dynamic assignment at boot-up,
so you might not see consistent IRQs, anyway.

Jordan

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