[geeks] Chickens, and SCSI

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 00:41, Will Mc Donald wrote:
> Some sort of PCI weirdness?

Yeah, that's what a few articles at Adaptec's website suggested.  I've
got the latest BIOS available for my motherboard (at least, for this PCB
revision).  

> If the card's worked OK in other setups then you
> know (well, to a resonable degree) that it's OK. Have you tried

It was actually working just fine on this motherboard, with a few more
cards, just a month or few ago.  I haven't tried moving which PCI slot
it's in yet...

> moving/removing the other PCI cards? What motherboard's the SCSI card
> plugged into?

There aren't any other PCI cards, just an AGP video board, and an old
ISA 3c509 NIC.  The motherboard is an MSI 5169.  K6-2 300 proc, 128MB
and 64MB PC100 DIMMS.
	Greg
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gregory Leblanc" <gleblanc at linuxweasel.com>
> To: "Geeks" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 6:35 AM
> Subject: [geeks] Chickens, and SCSI
> 
> 
> > I decided that today was a good day to build up my 'test box' that I've
> > been collecting parts for.  I'm attempting to use my "trusty" Adaptec
> > 3940UW card (like the 2940UW, only dual channel).  The machine works
> > just fine, as long as it doesn't enable the BIOS.  So, if I turn the
> > SCSI BIOS off, it boots.  If I turn off the bootable CD support, and
> > don't attach any hard drives, it works.  Whenever it tries to install
> > the BIOS, it just sits there, forever.  numlock still toggles, it just
> > never gets any further in booting.  I'm stumped.  Any ideas?
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