The 2940 has a rom bios capable of booting a scsi hard disk.  Yours is not
booting because after a low level format there is nothing on the drive.  You
should check inside your cmos setup to make sure your boot order is C:, A:,
SCSI (or CD).
Enter cmos setup by pressing del when you see the message 'press del to
enter setup' about the time the memory is checked during power up.  You
should also press control-S again to enter scsi setup, and make sure the
hard disk is not set as the boot drive.  The 2940 will allow any drive ID #
to be the boot drive, not just zero.  If you set it to an id # that doesn't
exist it will just search the whole scsi bus looking for a hard disk with a
boot sector written on it.  There should be some where in there where you
can turn it off.
Tom Turak

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Hachmeyer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 10:34 PM

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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