SCSI Boot Problems

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Killarney AUS

Does anyone have any thoughts as to why during boot up, a SCSI adapter
is not found and scanned for devices? Hardware is a Gigabyte
GA7N400Pro2 and an Adaptec 39160 SCSI card with a tape drive and a
30GB boot volume. Was working previous to flashing the mobo Bios.

K
 
you were having problems so you flashed the bios? what problems?
did you set the SCSI as the first boot item in boot sequence?
 
Hi JAD... yup, did all that. Flashed the BIOS to FK version then
re-booted. The boot failed as the boot vol is on the scsi adapter..
checked the BIOS settings to make sure they were right. As far as I
can see, there are 2 places that need setting, one to make sure my
SCSI adapter is higher in the order - ahead of the on board GigaRAID
controller and SATA. The second place is the usual boot order -
floppy, cdrom, SCSI. No luck. The SATA and GigaRAID controllers get
scanned during boot, but never the Adaptec SCSI card. It does show up
in the 'PCI Device Listing... ' and works fine in another machine.
Ive tried disabling the GigaRAID and SATA controllers in the BIOS and
tried the backup BIOS (Dual BIOS m/b), which is the original FB
version. It fails to discover the SCSI drive as well!

Two weeks with out my primary machine - very frustrated :x -
Gigabyte support has no solution, as yet!

K
 
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