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To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (2979)	10/16/1998 1:33:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 14778

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? It is Adaptec PCI SCSI 2940U2W. It is a very new card and is not supported with drivers in the NT setup disk. The SCSI BIOS scans and finds the drive. The ID is set to 1. The Adaptec bios has an option to set boot ID's other than 0. I set the boot ID to 1 in the SCSI bios and the ID on the drive to 1. This works in my Win98 setup. 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. I believe the drive letter is assigned by the OS but it uses the sequence that the SCSI bios reports the drives. I just finished loading NT on one of the IDE drives. NT sees the SCSI drives now that it has been installed. A couple of other ideas on termination. I believe the termination is correct as the drives work in Win95 and Win98 and the IDE installation of NT. On second thought it might the answer. I wanted to install NT in a one drive system. I therefor unplugged the two IDE drives and the second SCSI drive before I started the installation. I did not revisit the termination issue after unplugging the second SCSI drive. I don't know if it was the last drive in the chain that I unplugged or the first. That definitely could be the problem Thanks Zeuspaul