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In article <1992Aug17.092316.16400@polaris.utu.fi> ahahma@polaris.utu.fi (Arno Hahma) writes:
> I have a problem with my hard disk not booting MS-DOS. The drive is a
> Maxtor 8760S and the SCSI controller Adaptec 1542B. 
> 
> I installed Interactive unix 3.0 on my computer and that works fine.
> But, at the same time I lost the ability to use the 30 meg
> DOS-partition I made. First I thought the unix might have done
> something, that prevents the DOS from booting, so I made backups and
> repartitioned the drive using DOS. It didn't help, the drive still
> does not boot DOS. The machine stubbornly tries to find a bootable
> floppy and hangs, unless the floppy drive door is closed, in which
> case it naturally boots from a floppy.
> 
> The strange thing is, that the hard drive works just fine, once I get
> the machine up with a floppy. Also, the drive boots unix without
> problems, so it does not look like a hardware fault. I have checked
> the SCSI-terminator and parity settings, the controller is installed
> as target LUN 0, SCSI id 0, the motherboard setup has no hard drives
> installed. So, the settings are correct as told by the manuals. I have
> also tried setting the bus speed as low as possible (5.0 MB/sec with
> jumpers), but it didn't help.
> 
> Have I forgotten something? Are there still some settings to be
> considered? Or is the SCSI BIOS simply incompatible with my
> motherboard? Any hints are welcome!

The adapter is at target LUN 0?  This is wrong.  The target ID of the
driver must be zero to boot and the adapter must be at another target
ID.  The default is 7 and you probably should leave it thier.  Hope this
helps.
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			Roy Neese
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