Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zazen!news From: michaelb@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Michael Bloxham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542B and Fujitsu SCSI drive - won't BOOT! Message-ID: <1991Jun23.233356.10117@macc.wisc.edu> Date: 23 Jun 91 23:33:22 GMT Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Distribution: world Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center Lines: 35 In article , gemini@geminix.in-berlin.de (Uwe Doering) writes... >michaelb@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Michael Bloxham) writes: > >>I am attempting to install a Fujitsu M2263S/H SCSI drive in a DTK 386/33 >>machine (with DTK BOIS) and a Trident 256kb SVGA card. I can boot from >>floppy and create a partition on the HD, format it and put a SYStem on it, >>but the machine will not boot from the drive. The adaptec BIOS finds the >>drive, and the DTK BIOS is configured for NO-DRIVe like the adaptec manual >>says to do. After looking for a floppy in drive A:, the system hangs. >>The Adaptec BIOS is loading in a good memory location (video is not >>interferring). Any ideas?? Any help would really be appreciated. > >I had this problem some weeks ago. This is a problem with the DTK BIOS >release you use. There are several DTK BIOS releases all with the same >version number. It was pure luck that someone else told me that. I >hate DTK for this. > > Uwe >-- >Uwe Doering | INET : gemini@geminix.in-berlin.de >Berlin |---------------------------------------------------------------- >Germany | UUCP : ...!unido!fub!geminix.in-berlin.de!gemini It turns out I needed to do a low level format with the controller I was using. I had been using the low level format the drive had from the factory. The Adaptec was happy with it's own LL format. Thanks for all who replied to my message! mike ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. Bloxham | Real programmers don't comment their code. michaelb@vms.macc.wisc.edu | If it was hard to write, it should be hard michaelb@WISCMACC.bitnet | to understand.