[geeks] Chickens, and SCSI

[bill pointon]

i bet your problem is the --- and an old
ISA 3c509 NIC -- it probably has a rom that is in the same memory space 
that the card needs ---- and it isnt plug and play so it wont move -- 
isa + pci == oil + water many times --- billp
On Thursday, December 27, 2001, at 02:15 PM, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 00:41, Will Mc Donald wrote:
>> Some sort of PCI weirdness?
>
> Yeah, that's what a few articles at Adaptec's website suggested.  I've
> got the latest BIOS available for my motherboard (at least, for this PCB
> revision).
>
>> If the card's worked OK in other setups then you
>> know (well, to a resonable degree) that it's OK. Have you tried
>
> It was actually working just fine on this motherboard, with a few more
> cards, just a month or few ago.  I haven't tried moving which PCI slot
> it's in yet...
>
>> moving/removing the other PCI cards? What motherboard's the SCSI card
>> plugged into?
>
> There aren't any other PCI cards, just an AGP video board, and an old
> ISA 3c509 NIC.  The motherboard is an MSI 5169.  K6-2 300 proc, 128MB
> and 64MB PC100 DIMMS.
> 	Greg
>>
>> ----- 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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