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The ROM on the 2940 card will "load the SCSI BIOS" -- also from ROM
on the card -- if it detects that there is a possible boot device
attached.
If your system CMOS doesn't give you a choice of whether to boot
SCSI or IDE first (I've seen this handled in a couple of ways), you
may be able to get into the 2940 setup (br pressing Ctrl-A when the
card banner comes up during the boot process) and *disable* loading
of the SCSI BIOS. (Your SCSI drive(s) should be available, once the
OS has booted, by way of the OS's 2940 driver.)
Dave Gillett
A+, MCSE, and now CCNA
On 14 May 2001, at 22:33, Paul Hachmeyer wrote:
> I'm trying to add a Seagate SCSI drive w/ adaptec 2940 card to my HP
> 266 machine. Win98 recognizes the scsi card, the card recognizes
> the drive. I low-level formated the drive via the scsi card
> utilities, but the machine won't boot. It appears to default to the
> scsi drive looking to load a bios from it rather than from the ide
> drive and just freezes.
> What is causing the scsi drive to appear to be the primary drive
> rather than secondary? IDE jumpers set as primary, SCSI has no
> jumpers to set it to secondary, seagate drive documentation doesn't
> address this issue. Should I set the ide as the secondary drive?
>
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