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@Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:55:04 CDT
Subject: Re: ecs K7S5A pro , AMI BIOS , and SCSI drives
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** Reply to note from "Richard R. Pufky"
 Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:55:22   
-0400 
 
Rick, 
  
> > Bios Boot Specification  
   
> Know of anywhere I can get more information about it? I haven't
googled yet (don't 
> have loads of time right now), but should be able to this weekend. So,
if you don't, that's 
> okay too. ;) 
 
Google is your friend! I have a rather comprehensive PDF here, somewhere,
sent to me by the folks   
at Symbios Logic (or whatever they're called this year) when we were trying
to solve the problem   
with the motherboard I replaced.  
 
If you get to the point that you understand it, perhaps you could educate
the Award BIOS folks!   
 
 
> Heh. Sounds like it was quite an experience. I think part of the
reason I didn't have too many 
> problems with 1.0 was that I don't have a SCSI cd. It worked fine
going from IDE CD to SCSI 
> HDs. It seems that people that have SCSI CDs have problems with it. 
 
Well, that was at least part of it. My machine is/was all SCSI. There were
a number of other   
issues, tho. 
 
> What are you gonna build for the new machine? 
 
Haven't really decided yet. I have a couple of fast AMD chips laying
around, so I'll probably use   
one of them. Somehow, "latest and greatest" doesn't impress me
that much anymore.  
   
> Weird. From the way you say that, I take it that they work in other
OSes? Or even in OS/2? 
 
Nope, they won't work in any OS, and I can't boot from even a DOS floppy
(or read it, for that   
matter!)  That has happened to me before, but putting in a new drive always
cured it. Not this   
time! 
 
I'm beginning to suspect the internal cable in the SCSI case, but it's a
chore to replace one of   
them. I think I'll first try exchanging two of the devices in the case and
see if the problem   
follows. I've already tried about everything else.  
 
> Yeah, you can say that again! Don't understand why that'd be the case,
unless your machine is 
> one of those that doesn't like the new boot procedure. 
 
Booting from a CD is no longer a problem, assuming I can read a CD at all!
:^)  This thing simply   
refuses to acknowledge there is a CD in it. The 40X Plextor has had about 4
hours of actual use,   
so I doubt the drive is the problem. 
 
I'll figure it out one of these days. 
 
Steve 




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