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    AST RESEARCH, INC.           TECHNICAL BULLETIN # 1017               11-17-94

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                          PREMMIA MTE CAN NOT FIND SCSI II DEVICE

    PROBLEM:        The Premmia MTE system configured with a DPT 2022 HBA running
                    a Phillips CD- ROM (P/N 501467-001) returns the following error
                    message:

                         "cannot find SCSI II device"

    CAUSE:          Unsupported version of DPT SMARTROM and DPTDLL.SYS driver being
                    used.

    SYSTEMS
    AFFECTED:           AST
                    PART NUMBER              DESCRIPTION

                    501467-001      DRIVE CD-ROM SCSI OPT MTE/SE/SMP

    SOLUTION:       Upgrade the SMARTROM BIOS to version 002.D5 and the firmware
                    to 5E.  The DPTDDL.SYS driver needs to be dated 5-10-94 or
                    newer.

                    1. Contact Distributed Processing Technologies (DPT) at (407)
                       830-5522 for BIOS and firmware upgrades.

                       or

                    2. Download DPTDDL.SYS from DPT's BBS by dialing
                       (407) 831-6432. Copy the file DPTDDL.SYS into the root
                       directory. Install the file DPTDDL.SYS into CONFIG.SYS by
                       editing CONFIG.SYS and adding the statement:

                            DEVICE=C:\DPTDDL.SYS

                    Reboot the system.