David Relson wrote:
> 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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> David Relson Osage Software Systems, Inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ann Arbor, MI 48103
> www.osagesoftware.com tel: 734.821.8800
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As far as bios is concerned, my main bios will let me boot to scsi, and
from there the scsi decides what to boot to based on what I tell it. I
have fooled around with it for a while to no avail. Even if I remove
all scsi hds it simple gets mad at me but does not recognize the cdrom
as something to boot to. You gotta prove me wrong on this one (that it
is the 2940's "bios" and not my mainboard's) for me to believe you.
<Part to ignore>Anyway, there's a good boy testing the drivers. I'm too
scared and lazy. April 15-May 15 probably be the worst month of my life
in memory so I've been slacking off on any sort of development or
testing. I dare say I wish I could get my hands on some cash and get a
new computer to supercede the one which has defied all odds and not
blown up yet. On which I will have some cheapo ide hds instead of this
scsi stuff. I ain't no cad designer or anything, no video producer.
;)</Part to ignore>
Blue
