okay if it just isa shuffling cards probably won't help. I am at a loss as
to what to do next. who else on the list has some ideas.
Andreas Tille [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Jason Thomas wrote:
>
> > If it is not loading the scsi bios from the controller at boot up then
> > there
> > is probably some sort of hardware conflict, I would probably try
> > shuffling
> > the cards that you have in your system i.e. move the scsi card to a
> > different slot.
> I moved the Adaptec adapter to *all* available slots and removed *all*
> other cards (there was an additional VGA-card in it, now I'm using the
> on board VGA).
> Nothing helps :-(.
>
> > When you put the network card in it may be causing a
> > conflict as well, so try different slots. If your working with an intel
> > box, on boot there should be a list of irq's used by there various pci
> There is no PCI. It's just an old ISA board.
>
> > cards
> > just after the memory and hardware desciptions. I know there sorts of
> > things should not affect linux but maybe its worth a try...
> Strangely enough id was running once in the first slot I putted it in
> together with the external Compac-VGA-adapter and Compac-Network-Adapter.
> The exact restore of this configuration as well as removing all Compac
> cards refuses to work now.
>
> Also I played around with the eight mini switches labeled S1 on the
> adapter. The only effect I detected is that if they are in position
> x x x x
> x x x x
> the floppy-disk controller of the Adaptec is used (it works perfectly !!!)
> and in the position
>
> x x x x x x x x
> the internal floppy-disk controller is used. If any of the left switches
> is moved up the box refuses to boot.
>
> Also there is an empty Jumper connector with four pins labeled J1.
> Is there any chance to get it working with this beast?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
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