At 08:37 PM 4/25/01, Blue Lizard wrote:
>Claudio (sekko) wrote:
>
>>On Tuesday 24 April 2001 00:40, Blue Lizard wrote:
>>
>>>The 2940 model (i do believe that's what I have...) does not support
>>>booting to cdrom nor does any other similar model that I have seen or
>>>heard of. I could not duplicate your problem for the life of me :).
>>>But nice to know you fixed it.
You can boot from cdrom with the Adaptec 2940 - if your bios supports
it. Look for a bios option named "boot order" (or something similar). A
likely value is "A,C", meaning floppy then hard drive. Change to
"CDROM,A,C" to use the CDROM.
One of my machines has the AIC7xxx chip on the motherboard and SCSI CD-ROM
and Hard Drives. My other machine has an Adaptec 2940UW card (again using
the AIC7xxx chip) with a SCSI Hard Drive and an IDE CD-ROM. Both of them
have bioses that support "A,C" or "CDROM,A,C" (and many other
orders/combinations).
At the moment, Mandrake 8.0 is running fine on the IDE/SCSI machine (after
an ftp install from the SCSI/SCSI machine). The other machine seems to be
having AIC7xxx problems, which I am working on resolving. I'm testing with
drivers aic7xxx_old, scsi 6.1.8, and scsi 6.1.11 to find what works ...
David
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