OT: Mylex problems

From: Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Sun Feb 3 15:52:43 2002

On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:

> I've verified that the drives, cable chain, and termination works perfectly
> with Adaptec and SIIG controllers. I'm thinking that the problem lies
> strictly in the plug-n-play setup. Is there a way to "force" these
> assignments on this card? The Win95 clearly complains of conflicts in nearly
> every resource. I'm looking at trying to force it in a different motherboard,
> since the BIOS features of this HP system are somewhat restrictive and not
> totally transparent.

  If the BIOS will allow you to turn off "PnP OS", I'd do that. Then
you can force W95 to accept hard setting assignments for most resources
in Device Manager.
  Is the Mylex BIOS running at boottime? If so, any conflicts should be
solvable in Windows.
  But you probably know all that....

        Doc
Received on Sun Feb 03 2002 - 15:52:43 GMT