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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: <25316@macc.wisc.edu>
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.192316.17219@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 26 Jun 91 19:23:16 GMT
References: <25316@macc.wisc.edu> <284500030@adaptx1>
Reply-To: poffen@SunOS (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, ATE division, San Jose, Ca.
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In article <284500030@adaptx1> neese@adaptx1.UUCP writes:
>
>>/* ---------- "Adaptec 1542B and Fujitsu SCSI driv" ---------- */
>>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 have run into a similar problem with a Premier 386/33 system.  It uses
>a deriative of the AMI BIOS.  Can create/access the disk from the floppy
>just fine, but it will not boot at all.  Near as I can tell, it has something
>to do with the motherboard BIOS, but as soon as I figure it out, I'll post.
>

I have a noname clone with AMI BIOS and it seems to like my AHA1542B just fine.

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