michaelb@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Michael Bloxham) (06/20/91)
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. 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.
gemini@geminix.in-berlin.de (Uwe Doering) (06/22/91)
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. Try to get an up to date DTK BIOS from your computer dealer. Sorry that I don't have this version number handy right now. I run UNIX on my 386 box, so I can't boot as easily as DOS users to look at the boot message. But on the other hand, this number would tell you nothing, as I pointed out. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | INET : gemini@geminix.in-berlin.de Berlin |---------------------------------------------------------------- Germany | UUCP : ...!unido!fub!geminix.in-berlin.de!gemini
michaelb@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Michael Bloxham) (06/24/91)
In article <KE4R2JU@geminix.in-berlin.de>, 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.