Scsi help..making a 98 or XP boot drive

[Locke]

Hey guys. I wasen't sure whether to pst this in Tech support or peripherals...but here goes!

I have a 29160 adaptec card, with a LVD 160 cable and an 18.1 gig Seagate 10k Cheetah. I have the non terminated end pluged into the primary 68 pin slot on the card, and the end plugged into a (I think it's an SCA converter) that allows me to plug power, and the cable to the HD. I'm running XP pro, and when I first booted up It seemed to have loaded the adapted scsi drivers, as I could hit alt+a and get into the scsi setup..as well as the scsi HD being recognized and able to be formatted(which I did)

Anyway, I set the boot sequence to
1-floppy
2-scsi
3-CDROM

Upon booting from a win98 CD, it gives me an error saying "Win 98 cannot be installed because there is an error with the HD, there is no HD present, or your HD needs additional drivers. Any help? I seem to be stuck at this step! Thanks =)

 

[Evadman]

I am not a huge Scsi man, I only have a scsi burner. I can still make guesses tho

Is there a way to set the scsi hard drive as the primary? ( like master/slave in IDE. with IDE the bios will boot the primary first )

As in: Does the scsi Hard drive have to be set as ID# 1 ( or 0 if the scsi starts at 0. Not too sure. ) to boot to that drive?

 

[Locke]

Actually the drive needs to be set to 0. THe card itself set's itse'f to 7. I just double checked and they are set as so. Thanks though =)

 

[Nothinman]

You need to load the DOS drivers for the SCSI controller on the boot disk, DOS can use BIOS calls to read/write to IDE disks which is why they don't need drivers but that (really, slow) access doesn't work for SCSI.

Why are you wasting such good hardware on such a sh!tty OS anyway?

 

[Losty]

yeah...

do the drivers for adaptec load during the floppy boot up? it should read some aha stuff blah blah

if it isn't loading than check the boot disk and make another one

did you install xp with ntsf? that might be another problem if you did do this ...

good luck

-Losty

 

[mastertech01]

You stated you formatted the HDD while in the SCSI controller... That would be a low level format. So since the 29160 is later than the Win98 bootdisk you need to create a bootdisk with the updated dos driver for the 29160, then fdisk and create the primary dos partition, set active, and format for Win98. If you are using WinXP then you dont need to do anything, as it fully supports the 29160 and will do the partitioning and formatting for you. As long as you are using the HDD setup on the controller to boot at the same ID set on your HDD, have a proper terminated LVD cable, LVD rated SCA adaptor, you should have no problems at all with XP.