kish_44 wrote:
> --- In os2hardware{at}yahoogroups.com, Kris Steenhaut
 wrote:

>> Are you saying you are running eCS as guest under Windy XP?

> No way in the world, Kris!
> To clarify, I can run WinXP two ways:  1) As a Virtual PC within eCS. 
2) By dual-booting
> directly to WinXP.
> It's when I dual-boot over to WinXP (which I do only when I need to
test stuff, as in the
> current situation) then I can see the Adaptec controller.  Thus my
assumption that the
> card is good and functioning, and not physically damaged in some way.

Hi - I have used Adaptec SCSI cards in my OS/2 + eCS system in the past 
to use an external SCSI scanner. You obviously need to install the 
correct drivers (I don't think support for some of the Adaptec cards 
gets installed by default from an eCS build). It should be possible from 
an IDE booting system to address a SCSI attached device - be it a 
scanner or a harddisk from eCS.

Whether you can boot from a SCSI drive ahead of IDE drives depends upon 
two factors. The main one being the system CMOS settings allowing you to 
define the SCSI device as a boot device ahead of the IDE drives and the 
other being the need to have BIOS on the Adaptec SCSI card. The cards 
intended for supporting external scanners often did not have a BIOS on 
them and hence could not be used to boot the system.

The important rule on SCSI devices has always been to ensure the SCSI 
chain is terminated correctly. Now a days devices often have intelligent 
termination but in some cases a jumper still needs to be put in the 
correct place.

Since you have the SCSI drive visible in Windows, I preseume you have 
gone into the SCSI card's BIOS settings at startup (usually via CTRL A 
on Adaptec cards if I remember correctly) and checked that all looks set 
OK ?

Cheers/2

Ed.


 
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