SCSI Boot Problems

[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

 

[JAD]

you were having problems so you flashed the bios? what problems?
did you set the SCSI as the first boot item in boot sequence?

 

[Killarney AUS]

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