Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ispi!jbayer
From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Disk controllers and weird booting rituals.
Message-ID: <423@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 89 15:58:12 GMT
References: <372@merk.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
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Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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In article <372@merk.UUCP> brennan@merk.UUCP (Rich Brennan) writes:
>
>  I've just upgraded to this WD-1007 ESDI controller, and it has this
>weird boot sequence:
>
>	  Hard reset the machine (i.e. the reset button), and the machine
>	does its RAM scan, etc. I get a "Hard Disk Controller failed"
>	message from (I think) my BIOS. However, if I do a "soft" reset


What kind of computer are you running? What BIOS?  It could be a problem
in the BIOS not recognizing the card correctly.

JB

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