SCSI Problem

[ccb at kukla.tiac.net (Charles C. Bennett, Jr.)]

>  How can i get the SCSI BIOS to install with only the CD-ROM in use?


The SCSI BIOS is only needed to handle boot drives (0x80, 0x81).
Most Adaptec controllers report "BIOS NOT INSTALLED!" when the
bus scan found no hard drives.  You don't need the BIOS to install
to get at your CDROM (or Zip or SyJet or Jaz or whatever).

So I haven't solved why you can't use the CDROM but perhaps I've
stopped you from staring at the place where the problem ain't.

Does the SCSI CDROM show up if you CTRL+A into the SCSI setup and
scan the bus?  Were you using modules and initrd to install SCSI
drivers under Linux and when you boot the IDE drive are the SCSI
drivers getting loaded?

ccb


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Charles C. Bennett, Jr.				Workgroup Technology Corp.
Principal Software Engineer,			91 Hartwell Ave.
Distributed Object Computing			Lexington, MA 02421

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