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It might just be that you will just have
to live with an F1 step during boot and count your blessing the controller and SCSI devices work once the OS is loaded..... I believe that the 2940 only had drivers that were intended for WIN95. Shortly I'm going to try to get the 2940 working with WIN98SE. I'm not clear on this particular subject--the driver, or rather, the BIOS, is loaded during boot, so I would have guessed that the controller card and SCSI devices would not have cared what OS is running, but perhaps that's naive on my part. Sure hope I don't have to buy a newer controller card to run my SCSI devices under WIN98SE.....if it would run and the only difficulty I faced was a F1 step during boot, I'd be happy..... Dale |
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In article , DEJ57
writes I'll try and help but I am a little confused. The error message appears to be telling you that the BIOS for the 2940 is not being installed. With my 2940, during boot, I always get a message saying "BIOS successfully installed!" (OS WIN95b). I'm not sure but I think the 2940 From what I remember You only get the 'BIOS' messages if the BIOS is enabled in the SCSI card. Press CTL-A during POST to get into the SCSI BIOS. With the SCSI BIOS disabled SCSI devices on the controller will work, but You may not be able to boot from them. I've got a 2940 and XP working good as gold using the XP provided drivers. -- Malcolm Ball replace delete with newsB for a valid reply to. |
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Press CTL-A during POST to get into the SCSI
BIOS. With the SCSI BIOS disabled SCSI devices on the controller will work, but You may not be able to boot from them. Could be! I started using the card in 1996, with WIN95a, and got the impression the BIOS had to be enabled for it to work, period. If I had a SCSI device conflict or if the controller conflicted with something, my rememberance is the BIOS would not load, and the card and devices were not available. So over the years I've kept it at what I believe is the default, enabled. Never tried to boot from any of the SCSI devices, so I've never considered that perspective. I may have to see if I can download the manual for the 2940 and review. Thanks for the information! And as I make changes over the next few weeks I'll post the results and test some different configurations. I did email Adaptec and asked if the 2940 and its most current drivers would work with WIN98se, but got no response, so looks like I get to roll the dice and find out for myself. Dale |
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Dale, thanks I tried what you said but no joy. I think I'll have to live
with hitting F1 during bootup. No big deal I guess. Alan DEJ57 wrote: I'll try and help but I am a little confused. The error message appears to be telling you that the BIOS for the 2940 is not being installed. With my 2940, during boot, I always get a message saying "BIOS successfully installed!" (OS WIN95b). I'm not sure but I think the 2940 has very specific resources required and perhaps you are having some type of conflict causing the BIOS not to be installed. Moving the card around in different slots might be a simple cure. Look in Device Manager for conflicts and make changes to cure them. But the confusion is that you said the 2940 works fine, and I don't understand how that happens if the BIOS for it doesn't get loaded/installed. Perhaps your OS has drivers of its own that let it work for you, and you don't need the Adaptec BIOS installed during boot? It might just be that you will just have to live with an F1 step during boot and count your blessing the controller and SCSI devices work once the OS is loaded..... Dale |
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Dale, I think Adaptec support it right up to W2000
Alan DEJ57 wrote: It might just be that you will just have to live with an F1 step during boot and count your blessing the controller and SCSI devices work once the OS is loaded..... I believe that the 2940 only had drivers that were intended for WIN95. Shortly I'm going to try to get the 2940 working with WIN98SE. I'm not clear on this particular subject--the driver, or rather, the BIOS, is loaded during boot, so I would have guessed that the controller card and SCSI devices would not have cared what OS is running, but perhaps that's naive on my part. Sure hope I don't have to buy a newer controller card to run my SCSI devices under WIN98SE.....if it would run and the only difficulty I faced was a F1 step during boot, I'd be happy..... Dale |
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Malcom, it all looks enabled, one thing I'm not sure about was in :
SCSI Device Configuration Send Start Unit Command 1 to 7 are all NO. Should they be NO or YES? Alan Malcolm Ball wrote: In article , DEJ57 writes I'll try and help but I am a little confused. The error message appears to be telling you that the BIOS for the 2940 is not being installed. With my 2940, during boot, I always get a message saying "BIOS successfully installed!" (OS WIN95b). I'm not sure but I think the 2940 From what I remember You only get the 'BIOS' messages if the BIOS is enabled in the SCSI card. Press CTL-A during POST to get into the SCSI BIOS. With the SCSI BIOS disabled SCSI devices on the controller will work, but You may not be able to boot from them. I've got a 2940 and XP working good as gold using the XP provided drivers. |
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In article , Alan Kerr
writes Malcom, it all looks enabled, one thing I'm not sure about was in : SCSI Device Configuration Send Start Unit Command 1 to 7 are all NO. Should they be NO or YES? Alan That depends (to some extent) on the way the SCSI device is jumpered. You've nothing to loose (crossed fingers) by changing it to yes for any device that's installed. If it makes no odds You can always change it back to no. -- Malcolm Ball change delete to newsb etc. |
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