AIC-7895

[Doug Ledford]

On 20-Jan-98 Luis.G.Silva at inesc.pt wrote:
>That's right, this is all it prints before hanging !
>
>Hardware:
>
>PII at 266, Tyan Thunder 2 w/ Adaptec AIC-7895
>
>SCSI Channel A:
>  Quantum Fireball 4.3GB SCSI-2
>  Quantum Fireball Tempest 2.1GB SCSI-2
>  Plextor x4.5 CDROM
>
>SCSI Channel B:
>  <empty>
>
>There is a strange thing: for both channels it says "BIOS Disabled".
>Is this normal ?

This should only happen under 1 of two conditions.  1, your BIOS is disabled
:) or 2, it's failing to load the SEEPROM.  When you boot with
aic7xxx=verbose:0xfff it should tell you if it successfully loaded the
SEEPROM for your card, let me know if that happended or it if said it
couldn't read the SEEPROM.  As a side note, on the motherboard 7895
chipsets, the BIOS for the chipset is part of the motherboard BIOS (aka,
instead of getting a notice that you have the Adaptec BIOS version x.yy, you
chould get something like BIOS version x.yyzzzz where z is a character
string corresponding to your particular motherboard type, on mine z is DK4
because I'm on an Intel DK440LX motherboard and the differences on how these
different BIOS implementations handle the SEEPROM could conceivably cause me
headaches).

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E-Mail: Doug Ledford <dledford at dialnet.net>
Date: 20-Jan-98
Time: 08:00:07
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