From: jre@zeos.com (Jim Erickson)
Subject: Re: My new Zeos (trouble)
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:03:25 GMT

In article <Bzz0wG.GtD@sci.kun.nl> ronaldpi@sci.kun.nl (Ronald Pikkert) writes:
>
>The history:
>	Last week I received by new Zeos machine. It was a bit
>	late, somewhat incomplete but it was there.
>	After unpacking and testing some of the ms/dos-5 and 
>	ms/windows functions the troubles began.
>	Since it seems to be virtually impossible to get any
>	technical assistance from Zeos Europe (the just
>	don't answer my calls) I hope te get some answers
>	from the wonder net.

Let's see what I can do. 

>
>The specs:
>	The machine runs on a I80486DS2/66. It has a Diamond
>	Speedstar 24X SVGA card.
>	It should have had 16 Mb's of memory but it had only 8 Mb's
>	It should have had 256 Kb of cache, it didn't.
>	It should have contained a Tornado Faxmodem II, it didn't.
>	It does contain a Archive2150 250Mb SCSI tapeunit wich,
>	like the 2 x 245Mb disks, is connected to the builtin SCSI chip.
>

Please email me your sales order number and your system's serial number and I
can check into the above, missing items. 

>The problems:
>	The tapeunit doesn't work. It came with SCSI backupsoftware.
>	The "Archive Information Manager" for Windows.
>	On startup is asks to specify a scsi controller. Since there
>	is no technical information on either the controller or the
>	tape-unit, I had to guess more or less. The only plausible
>	answer i filled in was "Adaptec PC SCSI Controller"
>	Then there are some questions like:
>		Attached drives
>		I/O adress
>		Interrupt Number
>		DMA Channel          only possible answer to all
>				     of these questions is "auto-
>				     determine".
>	On pushing the [Test Hardware] button the system will
>	freeze. Any ideas?
>
When you are running AIM for Windows, or DOS for that matter, you must have
ASPI drivers installed for it to recognize the tape drive. Below you say you
tied to install ODT, did the tape drive function correctly under UNIX. The
Adaptec 6260 chip is compatible with their 1520 controller cards. If you set it
up for that it should work. Any other details that may help? 


>Another problem:
>	I tried to use my old "tandon add-pac" hardware. It doesn't
>	seem to work. Dit anybody ever try this? I do have I386/Unix
>	drivers for them but the system fails to boot after inserting
>	the RLL controllerboard.

I am unfamiliar with the "add-pac."  Is this similar to a Quantum Hardcard?  We
could have a controller conflict or something of the sort. Are you trying to
still boot off of the SCSI drives?  Adaptec SCSI controllers will only set
themselves up as the primary if they are the only disk subsystem in the system.
If they see another (i.e. IDE, RLL, etc.) they will reconfigure themselves as
secondary devices. 

>
>More problems:
>	I tried to install Sco Open Desktop (release 2.0.0). I seems
>	to work ok for a while but after the second boot from the N1
>	diskette the system gives a message 
>		"Setting installation display environment".
>	After this the screenborder becomes blue and the system seems
>	to freeze.
>	

This one is new.  Any other details you can provide, such as which display you
are setting it up for, would be appreciated. 

>
>It seems to me i'm a ling way from installing the X Window System.
>
>Any help appreciated,
>Ronald Pikkert (ronald@wn2.sci.kun.nl)
>(A Dutch Zeos User)

Contact me via email and we'll see if we can get this resolved ASAP. 

---JRE---


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>Ronald Pikkert                 E-mail: ronald@atcmp.nl
>@ AT Computing b.v.            Tel:    080 - 527252
>Toernooiveld                   Fax:    080 - 527292


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