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More info?)
Seems to be a confusion: You've two BIOSes:
1- The PC setup calls the MoBo BIOS. You have to select SCSI as first boot
drive.
2- Then during the boot, you may have a message telling to press "Ctrl A" to
call the 'SCSI Adaptec BIOS setup'. There's a second BIOS on your SCSI
Adapter board. This message may not appear, depending on the configuration
you made. This is an option.
Now, within the _ADAPTEC_ setup, you must disable the SCSI BIOS itself. The
SCSI disks management will no longer be ensured by the Adaptec embedded
firmware but by external drivers. (Better to display the 'Ctrl A message'
for next time !)
Note also that depending on your keyboard language, the key sequence is
different, for Latin countries, it is "CtrlQ".
This SCSI BIOS being disabled, a driver is necessary in order Windows can
recognize your SCSI disks. I think it will install it automatically during
next boot when it will find the new peripherals. If not, you'll need to do
it manually. Drivers can be downloaded from the Adaptec site. At least this
is true for DOS, 98SE, Millenium and 2000. I've unfortunately no experience
with XP.
Proceeding in such a way will eliminate the conflict you have with the SATA
HD.
On top of that, during the boot, a box will probably display, related to the
SATA RAID configuration. Since you have a single SATA HD, you're not using
RAID, you should ignore it (I did under 98SE). Again, I don't know the XP
process. Don't rely on me for that last topic.
Does this make things a litthe bit more clear ?
Good luck
"Jim" <jim@internet.com> a écrit dans le message news:
EqqdndZ8s6mYepbfRVnyjA@pipex.net...
> Hi Aldo
> Thanks for your reply.
> Yes, it is the conflict of booting Sata and Scsi at the same time, but I
do
> need
> to select any of the 2 Scsi drives or the Sata so disabling the Scsi bios
is
> not an
> option.
> How can I solve the conflict at bootup?
> I am using XP.
> Many thanks for your help.
> Jim
>
>
>
> "Aldo Larrabiata" <duschmoll@racer.com> wrote in message
> news:420bc08c$0$19400$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr...
> > Had problems with both my Adaptec AHA2940UW and a SATA Disk.
> > SATA is harwware declared (jumper on the A7N8X Deluxe), SCSI HD is
> > declared
> > as first boot drive in the Setup. SCSI primary partitions are declared
as
> > non-active in Partition Magic or hidden. And in adition,
> >
> > the SCSI BIOS _ must be disabled _
> >
> > otherwise there's a conflict booting the SATA and the SCSI through its
> > Bios
> > in the same time. Windows standard drivers allow the SCSI disks to be
> > visible under Windows (98SE). The problem is that those disks aren't
> > visible
> > from DOS. To solve this issue, I downloaded a set of 16-bit drivers from
> > the
> > Adaptec site but I didn't installed them yet. This doesn't cause any
> > trouble
> > with Windows anyway.
> >
> > Hope this will help you
> >
> > "Jim" <jim@internet.com> a écrit dans le message news:
> > p_GdneaQLtouJZbfRVnyhA@pipex.net...
> >> I have an Adaptec 3920U Scsi Card driving 2 Scsi Hard Drives.
> >> Both Id's set to 0 and 1 respectively.
> >> I have fitted a single Samsung Sata 160G Hard drive, but am unable to
get
> >> the drivers loaded correctly in XP.
> >> It comes with a Code 10 error. The bios is set to boot from a Scsi
card,
> > if
> >> I set it to boot
> >> from a Raid Card the Sata bios comes first and won't finish loading due
> >> to
> >> memory load, a problem known with
> >> this Motherboard.
> >> I changed the ID for my existing Scsi Drives to 2 and 3 as the Sata ID
is
> >> set at 0,
> >> and as far as I can see there is no way of changing the ID of the Sata
> > with
> >> a jumper
> >> on the drive case.
> >> Has anyone had this problem before?
> >> Jim
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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