No host adapter - How is possible?

[pug]

hello,

As some of you have seen, I have been having trouble getting my SCSI drive up and running.

I thought I would be as explicit as I can so someone may be able so help me out.

ASUS P2Bs (Ultra2Wide) v.1.02 Bios 1.09

During booting, I hit Control + A to get in the SCSI bios.

My adapter ID is 7 (default) I have moved it to 0 and it didn't help.

My HD ID is 4. Quantum 2.1 Wide

When it scans the 15 devices it list both of them correctly.

When I go to the HD and format/verify media. It starts with the warning message of one minute to several hours. Then I get the following error message:

Unexpected SCSI fail
ID 4
Host Adapter: No - Host - Adapter Error
Target - Check condition
sensing - medium

I installed the adapter using "Add New Hardware" and using the Win98 CD. I deleted it from the Hardware profile, installed it using the ASUS diskette - no difference. The device listed in Hardware Devices states it is working correctly.

If I don't go into the SCSI bios - it finds ID4 and the SCSI bios is installed correctly.

FDISK:

Detects both of my drives correctly. I change to drive 2. There are no partitions on the drive. It states the drive is BLANK% as opposed to Drive 1 which 100%.
I try to create a dos partion - I get an error message after about 10 - 15 seconds - "No space on drive to make a parition".

I am completely stumped!

I have no clue how to proceed.

P.S. I download EZ-SCSI 3 from a website and it wouldn't find the adapter either. Then I discover my diskette and EZ-SCSI 4.02 Win3.1. So I uninstalled the old version and installed the one. It found the drive and adapter and installed some files. However I still can't format the drive.

I have never been able to see the drive in windows (no drive has ever been assigned).

So, what do you guys/gals think? Could it be that I haven't installed the adapter???

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks everyone who helped in the previous post.

Pug

 

[pug]

Oh well, Thanks

Pug

 

[corkyg]

Make sure the adapter is in a dedicated sot with its own IRQ. Usually PCI #2 works. If it is a newer adapter, it is PnP, and it should be auto-terminated. It really should be assigned I.D. 7. If you have only external devices, it should be terminated. If you have mixed, then the last internal and external devices should be terminated.

If you are running Win98, you don't need any other drivers for most host adapters. Your Ctrl A spells "Adaptec." Is it?

 

[corkyg]

Make sure the adapter is in a dedicated sot with its own IRQ. Usually PCI #2 works. If it is a newer adapter, it is PnP, and it should be auto-terminated. It really should be assigned I.D. 7. If you have only external devices, it should be terminated. If you have mixed, then the last internal and external devices should be terminated.

If you are running Win98, you don't need any other drivers for most host adapters. Is the H/A bus-mastering, and is it turned on for that?

 

[Wizkid]

If it is a P3B-S then the adapter is on-board. I would try to call Asus tech support as it could be that the board is bad. Also, see if you can get another hard drive to try. Also double-check termination on both the drive and the adapter. I had a similar problem with my card because I didn't have proper termination.