help with Adaptec's 2940UW

[meetom]

I have a baffling problem with my 2940UW. I
have set the jumper on my hard drive to be SCSI ID 0. My 2940UW scsi bios recognize my hard drive during the POST. However, windows doesn't see it! I tried to use partition magic to format my hard drive but it can't see it either. Do I have a bad SCSI controller? Help! Oh, Yes I do have a terminator on my ribbon.

[CMonster]

Do you mean you have Windows installed on an IDE drive already in the system and it doesn't see your SCSI hard disk? Does Windows see your SCSI card okay in Device Manager? -not disabled or anything?

[meetom]

Yes, I have an IDE drive that I boot Windows. The Device Manager sees the Adaptec 2940UW as "working properly." Today, I just installed Partition Magic 6.0 on my IDE drive and was able to see my SCSI hard drive. I was able to format it with FAT32. However, when I removed my IDE drive from my system to do a fresh install onto my SCSI drive, the Windows bootup floppy disk fails to recognize the SCSI drive. Any ideas? Thanks!

[CMonster]

Boot from the Windows CD if your BIOS allows that option. Are you talking about Windows 98 -it should have the SCSI support for install?

Another option is: clone the IDE drive to the SCSI - or better yet create a "win98cd" directory on your SCSI drive and copy the Windows CD to the directory. Next transfer the system to the SCSI drive, remove the IDE drive, boot from the SCSI drive and do a local install from the "win98cd" directory.

Details: (sorry if this is not necesary for you)

easy copy C: to D: as follows -

(assuming IDE=drive C / SCSI=drive D)

go to Start/Run type in xcopy32 c:\*.* /h/i/c/k/e/r/y d: - press enter wait - presto, you are now ready to remove the IDE drive and boot from SCSI -- BTW, you may want to dump all your temproary internet files and temp files before you do the copy.

To do a local install:
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In windows make "win98cd" folder on SCSI and copy the Windows CD into it.
Start/Run type sys d: press enter - system is transfered and SCSI is now bootable.
Remove IDE, boot from SCSI, at prompt C:\> change directory to "win98cd," run "setup" or change to subdirectory (probably Win98) which contains "setup" file and run it to install windows.
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best of luck



[This message has been edited by CMonster (edited 12-14-2000).]

[meetom]

thanks for the info...i'll try this on the weekend...