[CLUG] Re: Adaptec 2930CU Problems

[Conor Brady]

Hi Peter,

As per your email,

 >>I mean get it to check for devices and activate the SCSI BIOS.
 >>Right now because it can't find a SCSI boot device it ends up
 >>saying SCSI BIOS Not Loaded, and it doesn't try to check for
 >>devices

But as you don't have any devices on the controller so how could it
detect any ??

If you attach the tape drive it should detect this straight away
and it won't try and boot off the tape drive SCSI ID 6 usually.

If the controller cannot find a bootable device or in fact any device
the adaptec card is going to say scsi bios not loaded,
can you connect the tape drive and let us know how you get on ??

Regards,
Conor.











At 09:26 15/06/01 +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
> > Usually to get into the card config for the bios screen
> > for adaptec's SCSI controllers
> >
> > Ctrl a
>
>Yes, but there's nothing in there about telling it that I will
>not be having any SCSI boot devices, only non-bootable ones.
>
> > You can config the card and tell it what device (SCSI ID) to boot
> > from so don't worry about adding a tape drive.
>
>But I don't want it to boot from any SCSI device and I'm surprised
>it seems to think I ought to be...most machines with add-in SCSI
>cards use non-SCSI boot devices (IDE disks) and use the SCSI chain
>for additional peripherals.
>
> > What exactly do you mean by getting the card to startup ?
>
>I mean get it to check for devices and activate the SCSI BIOS.
>Right now because it can't find a SCSI boot device it ends up
>saying SCSI BIOS Not Loaded, and it doesn't try to check for
>devices.
>
>///Peter
>
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