SCSI noob needs help...

[metroplex]

The only SCSI-2 controller card I have now is the one that Sony bundled with my Spressa 8x write/4x read CD-R.

I noticed there's no DIP BIOS chip, and its PCI.

I'm trying to move the contents from my D740X onto a Hawk 4 (Seagate) so I can use my D740X in my AMD computer (long story - but the 75GXP died).

Now the problem is, WinXp reads the Hawk 4 properly but only when it loads certain drivers, etc... and boots into XP.

DOS does not recognize it at all...

I cannot boot with this SCSI drive.

Is it because the controller card most likely does not have the ability to allow boot-up drives to be installed?

I do not see a "press Ctrl-I" to access SCSI bios.

It's an Initio 9090U (w/o the external port - just a single 50-pin channel).

What should I do?

I bought a EISA Adaptec from eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...8840&ed=1032219202&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOA:US:2

hoping it will work on my Abit BH6 to allow for me to boot into a SCSI drive.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

 

[Bobbyeyes]

Your scsi controller must have a bios to boot a hard drive (something must tell the boot sector what to do)
that scsi interface card can only be used for storage. you must replace it w/ a pci scsi card that has a bios

 

[metroplex]

damnit I cna't use an EISA SCSI-3 controller??

 

[RanDum72]

EISA was the 32-bit version of ISA and along with MCA was the one of the first plug and play expansion slots. Unfortunately, its practically dead.

 

[bozo1]

SCSI cards that are bundled with a CD-ROM, scanner, etc., usually do not have a BIOS and are not bootable.

The card you bought off Ebay is worthless to you unless you have a system with EISA slots. EISA went away many years ago.

 

[metroplex]

Would a Adaptec AHA-2930CU work?

Thanks

 

[Bobbyeyes]

there are a few 50 pin scsi pci cards that are bootable

 

[dkozloski]

A 2930CU is a current product with an onboard BIOS and 50 pin connectors.

 

[metroplex]

Thank you everyone!

I wasn't lying when I said I was a SCSI noob.

All my computer literate friends are IDE junkies, but I'm starting to see the benefits of using SCSI drives... longer MTBF, better reliability, better performance, etc...