Mylex problems

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblakeman_at_kih.net>
Date: Sun Feb 3 13:04:12 2002

I know that he won't boot from SCSI unless he disables the IDE controller
but otherwise the Mylex should work in his system. Make sure that IDE is
disabled and that the drive types in BIOS are set to none or 1 and see where
that gets him with it.

=> -----Original Message-----
=> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
=> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Richard Erlacher
=> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 9:56 AM
=> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
=> Subject: OT: Mylex problems
=>
=>
=> A friend has come to me with a problem I don't seem to be able
=> to solve. He's
=> got a couple of Seagate ST32550W drives and a Mylex DAC960PD PCI
=> controller, a
=> single-channel type, that just doesn't want to "see" the drives
=> attached to
=> it. I've verified that the drives work using a different
=> controller, and the
=> diagnostic software from Mylex seems to suggest that the board
=> itself thinks
=> it works OK, up to the point at which it is supposed to "see"
=> attached drives.
=> That's where things fall apart.
=>
=> He wants to run this thing under Windows95 and I've found him a
=> set of what
=> appears to be the appropriate set of drivers, but the
=> plug-n-play operation
=> doesn't seem to go well. His machine is an HP PC-Clone, a
=> "Pavillion" with a
=> 2GB ide drive and about 64 MB of RAM. The computer is
=> remarkably solid, from
=> what I've seen, having no particularly noticable problems aside
=> from those
=> associated with the Mylex controller.
=>
=> Have any of you guys had experience with the MYLEX SCSI adapter
=> involved here,
=> to the extent that you can suggest ways to make the plug-n-play
=> features work
=> to fit the system?
=>
=> Please let me know, as, having had some experience with MYLEX products, I
=> think this is potentially a really good product for him to use.
=>
=> thanks,
=>
=> Dick
=>
=>
=>
Received on Sun Feb 03 2002 - 13:04:12 GMT