On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Jerry Kubeck wrote:
> Niall,
>
> Thanks for the weepeing with me.
>
> It is a Future Domain TMC1670. The hard drive is Seagate Barracuda ST32550N
>
Aie! The very controller. IIRC this became one of the first boards adaptec
put out using FD technology (they just changed the name) after they
bought 'em (merged?). Do the host BIOS offer any configuration options?
No? You have one of the crappiest host adapters I've ever used then. ;)
> The Bios ( I thinkis what is telling me this) recognizes the controller,
> the controller recognizes the drive, but we continually get messages that
> tell us it we can't read the media. It reports disk size as Zero,
>
What SCSI id is the drive set to? I remember having to do horrbily
illogical things with IDs to get mine working. But I had two drives...
It's been a long time, but I did find these URLs that may help you:
http://www.pc-disk.de/pcdisk/c/ASCII/724.TXT
http://www.adaptec.com/support/overview/tmc1670.html
> I have an IDE disk with Win 3.11 in and am not sure if I have it blocked
> (if that is needed). We did go into the Bios and disable the IDE. We think
> we have jumpers on controller adn drive set to terminate.
>
If this is an old 486 you'll probably have to disable the IDE interface
totally to boot from the SCSI drive. Might want to peek in your BIOS and
see if there's an option though. There shouldn't be anything to prevent
you from booting from the IDE and using the SCSI however.
Sorry I can't be more help!
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