Privateer with scsi board

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peterlicious

Spaceman
I haven't seen this problem listed anywhere here, and I've searched the internet from head to toe looking for a solution with no luck, so I thought I'd try my luck and ask my question here...

I have an old pentium 60, and all the harddrives and cd roms are controlled by an Adaptec AHA-1540CF/1542CF SCSI card thinger. I read somewhere that Privateer and SCSI cards don't get along, and you have to exclude the memory range that it uses in the emm386 line. I tried doing this, but I got an invalid parameter or something like that, but I entered everything in correctly as far as i know. I got the memory range from some QEMM utility, but I'm thinking that it's not the right range or something. So when I run the game, the screen goes black, and after about a minute it says cannot read from drive C, abort retry ignore fail. It's nothing wrong with my boot disk, cause I've used it on a computer at my friends house, and the game works perfectly. It's just that one little parameter I can't get right. Does anyone know which memory range to exclude for this scsi card? I'm guessing not, but I thought I would try anyways.

Thanks in advance!
 
Never heared about the SCSI problem. My system is full SCSI, no IDE devices besides the floppydisk drives. I am using an Adaptec AHA-2940AU. No problems whatsoever.
No special includes or excludes with EMM386:
DEVICEHIGH=C:\SYSTEM\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /V /NUMHANDLES=128
DEVICEHIGH=C:\SYSTEM\DOS\EMM386.EXE AUTO RAM V 16384

Is this the DISK or the CD version of Privateer?
 
I assume you are sure that your HD isn't faulty or has bad sectors. Did you try to run a scandisk?

Do you load any SCSI drivers at bootup?
Something like:
DEVICEHIGH=C:\SYSTEM\SCSI\ASPI8DOS.SYS /D
DEVICEHIGH=C:\SYSTEM\SCSI\ASPICD.SYS /D:MSCD00
 
it's not faulty. Just had a reformat, and it works fine till I try to run this game. I tried putting it on the 2nd hard drive too, and I get the same result.

And yes, I'm running ASPI4DOS.SYS at startup. (note: with a 4, not an 8) and the other line too, for my cd rom.
 
In that case I'd try it without any aspi drivers as a test. Maybe they are bugged? (4 instead of 8 just indicates a different hardware, they should work identical)
 
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