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From: Preston Petty <presp AT earthlink DOT net>
Subject: Re: Recognizing SCSI HDD
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What motherboard are you using? What bios and ver?
Does the bios (cmos setup) have a "boot from scsi" option?
If you disable the onboard AHA bios, it needs to know what to 
try and boot from. That would make your SCSI drive c: 
Obviously, I think it is primarily a cmos/bios setup problem,
.. gee, I could be wrong, but that would be a first! (this hour).
-swags are abundant <G>. 
At 08:07 PM 7/5/00 +0200, you wrote:
>Pres,
>
>> Sounds like you have LBA enabled in cmos setup. Suggest you leave off
>LBA/UDMA/etc..just try PIO first. (you can always enable it later)<
>Well, I don't know what LBA is, there is no such thing for me to set in my
>SCSI BIOS that I was able to find. UDMA is disabled, and PIO only appears in
>conjunction with IDE drives, which I don't have installed. In fact, all IDE
>support is currently disabled.
>
>I managed to disable the onboard AHA BIOS, and this gave me the following
>error message:
>
>HA #0 failed to read or invalid BOOT record.
>
>So this appears as if DOS never checks for FAT partitions that are not the
>first partition on the HDD. It is still strange, though, that the 2 CD
>drives are assigned letters D and E skipping C. I would have expected the cd
>drives to be C and D, if no FAT partition is recognized.
>
>At least it does not appear to be a driver problem any longer....
>
>Does anyone know if it would make a difference to use OpenDOS 7.02 (or
>7.03 - where do I get that, anyway)? Drive Image gave me OpenDOS 7.01.
>
>Barbara
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