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Article #163Re: adaptec2940/quantum problems
From: bbraun
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 05:09
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 05:09
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In <NEWTNews.819496475.13845.apmorgan@us010277>, andrew p morgan <apmorgan@interramp.com> writes: > > > >I am having troubles installing a quantum atlas 4gig scsi drive. > >I have successfully copied files from my 1.2gig eide conner to my >quantum 4gig atlas, now i want to remove my eide and boot off my >quantum. > >when i remove cable to eide drive and eliminate from my CMOS setup >and try to boot from scsi drive i get disk I/O error. > >i tried booting from startup disk and run fdisk i get a can't find >fixed disk error. when i put eide drive back in fdisk runs fine. > >i'm trying to set my scsi drive as the active partition, but since i can't >run fdisk without eide drive installed and fdisk only lets eide drive be >active partition, i'm in a catch-22 > >i'm using regular dos fdisk and format, since adaptec low level format >utility fails > >any help is appreciated >andrew > > Also, make sure that the BIOS on the host adapter is set to "on," since you can't use a device driver before you boot (OK, this may sound like a no-brainer, but guess who screwed this up once <oops> ). Benjamin Braun
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nnrp.info.ucla.edu!usenet From: bbraun@ucla.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: adaptec2940/quantum problems Date: 28 Dec 1995 05:09:00 GMT Organization: University of California, Los Angeles Message-ID: <4bt8pc$18u8@saba.info.ucla.edu> References: <NEWTNews.819496475.13845.apmorgan@us010277> Reply-To: bbraun@ucla.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: ts33-4.wla.ts.ucla.edu X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5