[geeks] Chickens, and SCSI

[Geoff Reed]

is the slot you're puttin it in bus mastering?  IIRC the adaptec cards need 
to be in a bus-master capable slot.

At 08:41 AM 12/27/01 +0000, you wrote:
>Some sort of PCI weirdness? If the card's worked OK in other setups then you
>know (well, to a resonable degree) that it's OK. Have you tried
>moving/removing the other PCI cards? What motherboard's the SCSI card
>plugged into?
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Gregory Leblanc" <gleblanc at linuxweasel.com>
>To: "Geeks" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 6:35 AM
>Subject: [geeks] Chickens, and SCSI
>
>
> > I decided that today was a good day to build up my 'test box' that I've
> > been collecting parts for.  I'm attempting to use my "trusty" Adaptec
> > 3940UW card (like the 2940UW, only dual channel).  The machine works
> > just fine, as long as it doesn't enable the BIOS.  So, if I turn the
> > SCSI BIOS off, it boots.  If I turn off the bootable CD support, and
> > don't attach any hard drives, it works.  Whenever it tries to install
> > the BIOS, it just sits there, forever.  numlock still toggles, it just
> > never gets any further in booting.  I'm stumped.  Any ideas?
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