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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (2963)	10/16/1998 12:29:00 AM
From: Dan Spangenberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

About your NT install problem. I didn't go back and read all the back posts, so forgive me if these ideas are redundant and you have already tried them. I assume you are using an Adaptec PCI SCSI card? 2940uw? Upon bootup CTRL-A enters the SCSI BIOS. Does the SCSI bus scan utility see the drive? Have you enabled the SCSI BIOS in the Adaptec setup screen and set the boot ID to 0? If so, then upon bootup, right after it shows the Adaptec SCSI BIOS loading it will scan for the drives and show them and I believe it assigns them a drive letter at this point. (I am not at work now and only have IDE at home, so I am going from memory. I may be wrong on when it assigns the drive letter.) If it not showing the drives after loading the SCSI BIOS then something else is wrong and no OS will see them. You can confirm that they are there by booting to a floppy and doing fdisk on them. If they don't show up in fdisk then they aren't available to the system. A couple of other ideas on termination. Have you terminated the last drive on the SCSI chain and enabled termination power? Also regarding termination, check in the Adaptec setup (Ctrl A) It must be set correctly. I think the newer BIOS gives you options, internal, external, none, and automatic. Auto usually works OK. Or set it to what your configuration is exactly. If only using one internal drive, set the card to terminate the external bus and put jumpers on the internal drive to enable termination on the internal bus. Both ends of the bus (internal and external) need to be terminated. The majority of our systems are SCSI and I can tell you it is sometimes a bit fickle on multi adapter/multi drive systems. Usually it is due to termination. A single adapter/single drive system should be very simple and no trouble. I have installed NT dozens of times on such a setup and never had trouble. I believe your problem is due to the BIOS setup and or termination. I apologize if these items have already been mentioned or you already know or have done these things. No intent to insult or imply you haven't done it right, just trying to relate my experience. Let me know if I can be of any other help. NT should install easy on this setup. Good Luck Dan P.S. I have found with NT installs, if your BIOS supports booting from the CDROM, that it is much easier than doing the floppy disk shuffle. Just pop the CD in and it goes into setup! When I found this out I thought it was so cool!