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| 2988.1 | | BHAJEE::JAERVINEN | Ora, the Old Rural Amateur | Tue Apr 15 1997 13:17 | 1 |
| What operating system?
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| 2988.2 | Sounds like a similar thread elswhere in here... | NETCAD::BATTERSBY | | Tue Apr 15 1997 14:26 | 7 |
| Sounds like the same type of problem discussed in another
thread in the last day or so. The other thread I believe is
the autodetect of a sound card by Win95 and how Win95 doesn't
do well at autodetecting previously detected hardware, the
second time around.
Bob
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| 2988.3 | Wish it was that simple. | IRNBRU::LITTLE | | Tue Apr 15 1997 14:35 | 9 |
| The problem is that when the PC boots the SCSI controller is detected
(by the system BIOS) but it fails to see the SCSI drive. Therefore the
operating system is irrelevant. I have tried booting DOS and attempting
to use FDISK but as I said, the SCSI controller can't see the drive.
I've also booted WIN95 but it also sees the controller but not the
drive. The controller isn't goosed as I have an old 20Meg SCSI drive
and if I plug it in it is OK.
Stuart
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| 2988.4 | | BHAJEE::JAERVINEN | Ora, the Old Rural Amateur | Tue Apr 15 1997 14:43 | 14 |
| 2988.5 | | TARKIN::LIN | Bill Lin | Tue Apr 15 1997 14:47 | 13 |
| re: .3 by IRNBRU::LITTLE
>> The problem is that when the PC boots the SCSI controller is
>> detected (by the system BIOS) but it fails to see the SCSI drive.
Not sure what SCSI host adapter you have, but unless you have SCSI BIOS
support for DISKS, you won't see the disks until the operating system
kicks in and loads a driver.
>> The controller isn't goosed as I have an old 20Meg SCSI drive and if
>> I plug it in it is OK.
That would suggest there's something wrong with your disk.
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| 2988.6 | | IRNBRU::LITTLE | | Tue Apr 15 1997 16:11 | 8 |
| The contoller is an NCR something or other (it's built into the
motherboard).
Normally the drive is detected by the bios (and displayed on the monitor)
as a conner xxxx on boot up - this doesn't happen with the trashed drive.
The drive does spin up and it comes ready but the controller just does
not see it.
Stuart
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| 2988.7 | just fishing | TARKIN::LIN | Bill Lin | Tue Apr 15 1997 16:48 | 8 |
| re: .6 by IRNBRU::LITTLE
Hi Stuart,
Have you made sure the other SCSI-type details have been taken care of?
e.g. ID, termination, term power
Does your NCR handle drives other than SCSI ID 0,1?
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| 2988.8 | | BHAJEE::JAERVINEN | Ora, the Old Rural Amateur | Tue Apr 15 1997 18:36 | 10 |
| >The contoller is an NCR something or other (it's built into the
>motherboard).
Presumably an NCR (or rather SYMBIOS) 53C810. The BIOS should handle
two disks, and it should report all SCSI devices it sees. (It's the
SCSI controller BIOS that does it, not the system BIOS).
Seems like something wrong with the drive. Could you try the drive on
another system?
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| 2988.9 | | IRNBRU::LITTLE | | Wed Apr 16 1997 10:57 | 8 |
| NCR 810 - that's it!
I am fairly sure it is the drive that is trashed since my other SCSI
drive works. What i was hoping for is that someone might have an idea
of what went wrong and if there is any way to recover the contents of
the drive intact.
I don't have another machine with a SCSI controller so I'm stuffed to
try drive in another machine
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| 2988.10 | And the drive is...,? | PCBUOA::MCQUADE | st*rs = 1x4x9 | Wed Apr 16 1997 14:43 | 6 |
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What drive is it specifically and are you positive it spins up and
is ready in time for the 810 to see it?
Kevin
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| 2988.11 | | IRNBRU::LITTLE | | Wed Apr 16 1997 15:29 | 10 |
| Kevin
I can't remember off hand exactly what type the drive is (conner 1.2 Gig)
but it's been in my system for about 2 years and worked perfectly ok
until I let some poxy game autodetect the soundcard!
The drive definately spins up, appears to perform its self checks and
appears to come ready - the led goes out after a couple of seconds of head
activity. All of this happens long before (well a few seconds) the SCSI
card tries to detect the drive.
The drive is set as ID 0 and it is terminated.
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