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- From: neese@adaptx1.UUCP (Roy Neese)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: SCSI drive not booting - why?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.144135.29006@adaptx1.UUCP>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 14:41:35 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.092316.16400@polaris.utu.fi>
- Organization: Adaptec Inc., Texas
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- In article <1992Aug17.092316.16400@polaris.utu.fi> ahahma@polaris.utu.fi (Arno Hahma) writes:
- > I have a problem with my hard disk not booting MS-DOS. The drive is a
- > Maxtor 8760S and the SCSI controller Adaptec 1542B.
- >
- > I installed Interactive unix 3.0 on my computer and that works fine.
- > But, at the same time I lost the ability to use the 30 meg
- > DOS-partition I made. First I thought the unix might have done
- > something, that prevents the DOS from booting, so I made backups and
- > repartitioned the drive using DOS. It didn't help, the drive still
- > does not boot DOS. The machine stubbornly tries to find a bootable
- > floppy and hangs, unless the floppy drive door is closed, in which
- > case it naturally boots from a floppy.
- >
- > The strange thing is, that the hard drive works just fine, once I get
- > the machine up with a floppy. Also, the drive boots unix without
- > problems, so it does not look like a hardware fault. I have checked
- > the SCSI-terminator and parity settings, the controller is installed
- > as target LUN 0, SCSI id 0, the motherboard setup has no hard drives
- > installed. So, the settings are correct as told by the manuals. I have
- > also tried setting the bus speed as low as possible (5.0 MB/sec with
- > jumpers), but it didn't help.
- >
- > Have I forgotten something? Are there still some settings to be
- > considered? Or is the SCSI BIOS simply incompatible with my
- > motherboard? Any hints are welcome!
-
- The adapter is at target LUN 0? This is wrong. The target ID of the
- driver must be zero to boot and the adapter must be at another target
- ID. The default is 7 and you probably should leave it thier. Hope this
- helps.
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-
- Roy Neese
- Adaptec Senior UNIX/SCSI Software Engineer
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