From: Jonathan Berry (jberry_at_islandnet.com)
Date: Thu Jul 08 1999 - 04:16:12 EDT
I've partially solved my problem:
win95a, dock ii, 701
OS hangs after reading autoexec.bat, evidently due to the SCSI
controller.
Solution: having turned off the SCSI BIOS, I allow Win95 to
install a driver (any driver it chooses), then in safe boot, I
turn off the device in Dock 2 mode.
Even though I have an apparently correct driver
(Adaptec AHA 152x), I cannot use SCSI. When I boot the Dock II
2100 diagnostic disk, it claims that no dock is detected (even
though diskette, mouse, keyboard all work fine hanging off the
dock ii). Perhaps that has to do with the 701, which requires
an adaptor, which was created after the 2100 diagnostic disk.
I'm down to two hypotheses:
a) the SCSI is fried (which may explain why the previous owner
was getting rid of it); or
b) there's something on the diskette(s) which come with the
701-to-dockii adaptor (FRU 04H8353 or 42H1510). I received the
dock ii with the 701 adaptor installed but no diskettes. I was
not able to find a reference to drivers on the IBM website.
So, the question: does anybody have the diskette (s), and
could they email them to me?
Incidentally, I bought a SCSI CD-ROM to go into the dock ii,
but found that it was physically too long to make a proper
fit. Of course, I never could test if it worked.
-- cheers Jonathan
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