I built a similar system last December using a PII 350 on a FreeTech
motherboard, a Diamond V550 AGP, and an Adaptec 2940AU controller. I also
got the timeout failures and other SCSI failures during the boot. Sometimes
it did not even find the SCSI board. I moved the SCSI controller to
different PCI slots and found that the change in position affected the
recognition. In particular, You should not place the SCSI board into PCI
slot 1 or 5 since these share an interrupt with the AGP slot.

Additional problems were solved by getting updated drivers for the SCSI - of
course this only affected operation after a boot. I am running Windows NT.
Also, check the SCSI speed for each device - some of my settings were too
fast for the devices connected to the board.

Hope this is of some help.

Peter Shkabara
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-----Original Message-----
I am building a new PII 350mhz system using the configuration below.
No operating system currently installed.
CPU - PII 350 MHz
Motherboard - ASUS P2B  (Has an AWARD BIOS v4.51PG revision 10008)
SCSI Controller - Adaptec 2049 Ultra Wide V1.25 BIOS
Quantum Fireball 6.4g SE
Diamond V550 AGP vide card

I receive a "time our failure during SCSI inquiry" error message when the
controller attempts to locate the devices on startup, followed by a "SCSI
BIOS not installed". I went to the SCSI utilities and could not get the
device to be recognized.

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