OT: Mylex problems

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Mon Feb 4 09:21:37 2002

I simply plugged the board into a motherboard that had no other plug-n-play
resources in use (on-board stuff was pre-assigned via "heritage" assignments,
and that got the controller to see its drives and format and subsequently
configure them. Unfortunately, having now done that, it doesn't boot Win95,
though it is booting from the IDE drive.

That's going to be a problem. Another problem is that the Win95 version uses
FAT16, so it doesn't recognize the striped pair as a large drive, since it
can't deal with drives >2GB. I'm not sure what to do about that, however.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Reed" <geoffr_at_zipcon.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Mylex problems


> Have you set Plug & Play OS? to NO in the computer's BIOS setup???
>
> Have you gone into the PCI / PNP set up in the bios and manually assigned
> IRQ's?
>
> At 10:16 PM 2/3/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >I've tried it with the BIOS turned off and also with it enabled.
> >Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to get past the point of conflicting at the
I/O
> >addresses, buffer memory range assignment, and interrupt. All of these are
in
> >collision with local system resources. Windows asserts that none of the
> >assignments can be changed in Device Manager.
> >
> >Dick
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Doc" <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
> >To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> >Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 2:52 PM
> >Subject: Re: OT: Mylex problems
> >
> >
> > > 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 Mon Feb 04 2002 - 09:21:37 GMT