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@Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 01:58:56 +1000
Subject: Re: ecs K7S5A pro , AMI BIOS , and SCSI drives
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Don Hawkinson wrote:

>I bought the parts for a new pc and put them together with my existing
>drives.  
>
>ECS K7S5A Pro, AMD Athlon XP 2400+, 1 gig of DDR memory
>
>My first attempt at booting OS/2 resulted in a trap e message.
>
>If I disable the IDE ports, I eventually get the bootmanage menu and I can
>load OS/2.  To get that far, I have to configure the BIOS (AMI) to boot
>from the ID number of my host adapter.
>
>The BIOS finds the drive, but then displays a message that the drive 2 is
>not ready.  The drive was spun up by the host adapter before the BIOS ever
>attempts to boot from the drive.  If I hit return once or twice, I
>eventually get the bootmanager menu.   I don't get any more disk errors if
>I get to the bootmanager menu, but the bootmanager only displays a line
>for booting from the C: partition.
>
>I tried two different models of LSI scsi host adapters with the same
>results.
>
>If I disable the IDE ports, I get the complete bootmanager screen with the
>other boot choices.
>
>Is anyone using OS/2 with a similar configuration?
>  
>

Hi Don,
Not the same hardware, so don't know if this helps [at all?].  I have 
the "basic" ECS-K7S5A - 1.2 Ghz Duron-  2-DDR  184-pin slots [1x256MB 
{PC-2100?} populated] + 2 unused-168-pin SDRAM slots [either/or], no 
onboard Video/LAN/Modem and it has the AMI SimpleBIOS.  Processor set to 
12x100 - RAM to 133Mhz.

I am using an Adaptec 2940UW and also have two ATAPI HDDs, an 80GB 
Seagate Barracuda ATA100 7200 and a Seagate 10GB ATA66, in addition to 
variously an 18.2GB 10K IBM LVD/SE, 9.1GB 7200 IBM SE, 9.1GB Seagate 
Cheetah10K LVD/SE 80/68/50-pin connectable.

I have installed eCS 1.1 to the 80GB - four trial partitions with 
different combinations and also to each of the 3 SCSI drives, one at a 
time connected.  IBM BM is on every SCSI-disk and also on the 80GB 
ATA100.  The system only has one CD-* device, an ACER ATAPI-CD-RW/R, as 
a slave to the 80GB HDD.  Basically all SCSI-installations were a dream 
run, once I knew to re-enable the 80GB master, during the first reboot - 
the ATA drives are in removable drarwes with sliding locks which 
activate fans and drive-power.  They can be resident - but 
powered-off-for HOT-swapping :-\ , at least under Wxx for sure, possibly 
in LVM situation also, will try soon.

In the AMI SimpleBIOS, my boot sequence is currently set as follows:

1.   CD-Boot

2.   IDE-0

3.   SCSI [non-specific] - I have never made this item the #1 in the 
sequence - only had SCSI here on this machine for past 11-days :-)

Try other boot devices - Yes

In the Adaptec BIOS [1996  v1.23 - about to Flash-upgrade it], no SCSI 
devices are set as boot-device and CD-boot is enabled, SCSI-BIOS is 
loaded into memory on boot.

If there is a bootable CD in the [ATAPI] CD-RW the first option on the 
menu is Boot from HDD  [default after menu timeout].
Other options depend on contents of boot.cat - as for eCS CD#1.

[Enter] on first item - initiates IBM BM Menu from 80GB HDD and includes 
the SCSI-Boot options from Disk 3 in addition to all the bootable 
OS/2-eCS-Linux-W2K-partituions on Disk1 and Disk 2.  The 2940UW BIOS 
identifies the SCSI-disk 3 as [82h], having recognised the ATAPI drives 
fitted.  My driver for any of the SCSI-disks is AIC7870.add and along 
with OS2SCSI.DMD this is located in my config.sys entries *after* the 
DANIS506.ADD/DANIATAP.FLT etc., FWIW.  Makes, here, absolutely no 
difference as to whether I can boot SCSI, with or without it being set 
as a SCSI-boot-device in the Adaptec BIOS.

I am not using the USB ports on the motherboard - don't have any USB 
gear whatsoever [yet], but all correctly identified by eCS 1.1 
installation.  I am using the onboard serial ports with SIO2K and have 
an ancient [DEC] PS/2 mouse and a [DEC] PS/2 keyboard.

NIC is a Realtek 8139 10/100 and PCI-video card is a Virge-DX [4MB  VRAM]

Does your ECS-K7S5A have a more complex [mouse-activated -like older 
WinBIOS] AMI BIOS than the simpleBIOS I have?
HTH

-- 
Regards,
Mike

Failed the exam for
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MCSE - Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert
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