Grab your Phillips, it's... The Latest from The Screwdriver List! Ron, I had a number of problems with a drive under Win2K that turned out to be due to a problem in the BIOS. It was a Maxtor drive and it turned out that the BIOS had faulty code for mode 4 drives. It hadn't been a problem under 98 and to this day I don't know why. Flashing the BIOS did the trick. That is probably not the problem here but I thought that it was worth mentioning, for both the motherboard and the adapter BIOS. I would also check whether bus mastering is on or off, and turn off the automatic assignment of SCSI id numbers. I forget what that feature is called since I never use it. - Good luck >From: Ron Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of The_Screwdriver_List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: From The Screwdriver List: Win2k install to SCSI drive >Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:41:04 -0500 > >Hi, folks, >I've run across a problem that I find intriguing. > >In our office we are attempting to install Win2k professional on an HP >Vectra/something. The machine is a 333/P2 (as I recall), 128 meg RAM, >HP's audio and video OEM onboard-subsystems-of-the-week, and an >intended 9 gig Seagate SCSI drive. >The SCSI card is an Adaptec 1540/1542 (ISA). > >NT 4.0 Workstation, Server, and Win98/se will all install perfectly to >this drive and boot correctly from the drive. > >Win2k will go through a partial install but following the change from >the text-based install to the graphical-install it presents the error >message "Inaccessible_boot_device", and does the equivalent of a BSOD. > >The message, and the corresponding hex addresses were located in >Microsoft's Knowledge Base with the suggestions that virus checking be >turned off, or that the drive may be compressed. >The drive was brand-new, never before opened. > >BIOS-level boot sector virus checking was disabled. The drive was >FDISK /mbr'ed, formatted under Partition Magic 5.0 as FAT32, NTFS, >EXT2 (Linux), and back to FAT32 for Win2k. > >We've tried copying the \I386 directory from the installation CD to >the drive and running the installation from there. > >Hours have been spent double- and triple-checking the SCSI card, its >termination, the drive's termination and address and the boot.ini >file. > >We know it will install to an IDE drive but at present we only have >spare SCSI units. > >Might anyone have any ideas ? >Ron n1zhi >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >ICQ:26516311 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ That's all for now from The Screwdriver List "Red Stripe to Pin 1" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
