[geeks] Chickens, and SCSI

[Will Mc Donald]

Some sort of PCI weirdness? If the card's worked OK in other setups then you
know (well, to a resonable degree) that it's OK. Have you tried
moving/removing the other PCI cards? What motherboard's the SCSI card
plugged into?

----- 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?