Promise card bios

[Ygor]

My Ultra 66 card came in yesterday. I installed it with the cable & floppy that came with it and found I could no longer boot to C. (My C drive is the one that's udma 66 capable.)
So... I put my C drive back on the regular IDE to allow boot and found that I have an ! on the scsi device. (This is where the ultra 66 installs, even though its ide.)
Went to the Promise web site and downloaded the latest drivers and installed them. I think it's the same as what I have on the floppy. Still have the ! in scsi.
However, I get the message at boot that the bios for the card is not installed.
I've tried the ptiflash.exe in msdos from the floppy. The A drive lite comes on and stays on, the system appears to freeze.
Any ideas what to do next?

[Susan]

From what I remember...I got the 'No BIOS found' error with my Promise card when there was no drive attached.

Delete the ! under SCSI, reboot and when WIN finds a Mass Storage Device, reinstall the drivers once again.

As far as you not being able to boot to C when you hook the drive up to the card, I'm not sure why.

It does seem like the system isn't seeing the card properly, so you could try putting it in another slot first.

[Stan]

Hi

This is what I know from using a Promise FastTrack.
Although the card is for IDE drives, it is consider as a SCSI card.
In the mobo BIOS, you can set up the boot sequence as SCSI or IDE. I had to set it up as SCSI on the PC where I have the FastTrack card installed.

If you install NT, you have to load the drivers of the card 1st otherwise you won't be able to access the HD.

Hope that helps a bit

Stan

[Ygor]

Thanks!
I found the same info in Promise's faq's at their site. I thought this was out long enough to have addressed this in the printed manual...
I'll post again today if this doesn't fix it, but I think it will.

[Susan]

Mine is set up under SCSI Devices as Ultra66 IDE Controller. WIN98