I just posted a message due to a problem that i have with a system much like
yours, be carefull with adaptec 78xx onboard and Matrox Millenium II AGP,
because they use the same IRQ's and you can't change them (well, i
couldn't). If you are going to use win95/98 you can work around this problem
but if you want to use linux, think twice because in graphic mode it doesn4t
work ! But if you can find a solution for that, please say something.
Good Luck
Carlos
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Navarro <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, July 28, 1998 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] SCSI Info


>Hello again
>
> I must say thanks to all who replied the SCSI Info thread, it
> helped me a lot buying my new computer.
>
> In a few days I'll be putting together a Pentium II 300,
> ASUS P2L97-S, IBM UltraStar 2ES 4.5 Ultra Wide SCSI,
> 32X SCSI-2 cd-rom, 4X12 cd-writer SCSI-2,
> Matrox Milenium II AGP 8 SDRAM, 64 Mb SDRAM 8ns, finally
> I end up buying a PCI 56K modem and 64-bit sound card, mouse and
> keyboard Logitech and to protect my investment I bought a
> 420 Volts UPS.
>
> The motherboard comes with a 50 and 68 connectors, Adaptec 7880
> SCSI controller (both on-board), I need help with the SCSI cables
>
> 1.Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm planning to put the cd-writer and the
>   cd-rom drive in the 50 pin SCSI-2 chain, terminated by the
>   cd-writer. The SCSI-3 chain terminated by the hard disk, can I have
>   unused connectors between the motherboard and the last SCSI device?
>   No terminator are needed, it can be done via jumpers.
>
> 2.Is that true that I have to physically low-level format the
>   SCSI hard disk in the BIOS?, then in the DOS define the partition
>   and format it again?  Maybe someone can tell me the typical
>   procedure to install a SCSI system.
>
> 3.Any other help in mounting the Pentium II
>
>
>   Thank you very much.
>