Problem with floppy drive?
My system is bare - A-Trend 7100M MB, 128meg memory (one stick), Diamond
SCSI Fireport 40 SCSI controller, Quantum, 3.2 Gig FireBall SCSI HD, Toshiba
SCSI CDROM, Hercules Terminator 3D/DX video card, 3.5 floppy connected to
the MB. NOTHING else installed.
I am trying to load DOS onto the harddrive but when I boot up from the
floppy I can't get past loading the symdisk.sys driver. I get:
"Warning: SYMDISK not loaded, no Devices Found!"
The version of symdisk.sys is at version 4.02.00b
I had the computer shop checked out adapter & cable and they could load
Win98 on this drive - Not the OS I wanted.
Makes me think that the floppy with DOS on it and the drivers is corrupted -
is that possible? It continues to read the rest of the config without a
problem. I took the adapter and SCSI drives to another motherboard and get
EXACTLY the same results using the same floppy to boot-up. What is my next
best direction?
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I have the same problem with my systems - not getting DOS to recognise a
hard disk bigger than 2Gb.
I expect that you have the HD as device 0 - first in SCSI chain, and that
your card is configured to boot.
Not having used your make of card, I couldn't tell you how to configure it's
BIOS, but it's normally fairly straight forward with most SCSI cards.
Another point is to check that you M/B BIOS is not set for a plug-and-play
op sys as DOS isn't but Win98 is. Plug-and-play op systems tend to chuff
around with interrupts etc and you do not want this to happen with DOS. I
would suggest that the configure the M/B BIOS for 'manual' or 'fixed'
settings (in something like the 'P & P' or 'PCI' section.
Having the SCSI bits managed by the BIOS instead of having to load drivers
first should also help.
The 'manuals' (leaflets) for the SCSI card, HD and M/B should point you in
the right direction, though you might have to either partition the HD into
two or use some software (should come with the drive) which makes big drives
visible to DOS.
Good luck ! Let me know how you get on.
Kevin.
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Problem aside, how about trying to load CD-ROM driver then?(aspicd.sys)
May give some clue indirectly.
Tony
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wrote:
You need to load the driver ASPI8XX.SYS first.
DEVICE=A:\ASPI8XX.SYS
DEVICE= A:\SYMDISK.SYS
Of course you need a copy of that driver on the floppy.
You can get it here:
ftp://ftp.symbios.com/pub/symc hips/scsi/drivers/DOS_Drivers/
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Milton B Hewitt <m.hew @mindspring.com> wrote in message
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time. To answer your question it doesn't give any clue directly or
indirectly. I do and have loaded the ASPI8XX.SYS driver before the
symdisk.sys driver and have even tried to load after (yes I know that you
aren't suppose to but I can't seem to find any answers.) with nothing giving
clues that will help out.
Mike Zemina
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