Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls58!mlord
From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Z-386 barfs at SCSI hard drive
Message-ID: <4380@bwdls58.UUCP>
Date: 18 Sep 90 17:25:12 GMT
References: <29582@netnews.upenn.edu>
Sender: mlord@bwdls58.UUCP
Reply-To: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Lines: 20

In article <29582@netnews.upenn.edu> chaim@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Dr. Chaim  Dworkin) writes:
>This is driving me crazy.  When the SCSI card is installed and functioning
>the Zenith will not boot; it goes directly into the setup mode.  I also
>cannot boot from a floppy from setup mode.

A lot of VGA/SVGA cards, particularly the 16-bit versions, do not get
along well with "neigboring" adaptors in the address space.  Since VGA
uses c0000-c7fff for its BIOS, your SCSI controller is immediately
adjacent at c8000.  Try re-jumpering it for D8000 if possible.  This has
something to do with the auto-detect 8/16 bit operation of the VGA cards.

My Perstor (ADRT) controller had this problem, and even included instructions
warning about it, along with a jumper to move the bios to c8000.

Have fun.
-- 
 ___Mark S. Lord__________________________________________
| ..uunet!bnrgate!mlord%bmerh724 | Climb Free Or Die (NH) |
| MLORD@BNR.CA   Ottawa, Ontario | Personal views only.   |
|________________________________|________________________|