Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:36:33 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: skyllaonline@hotmail.com (Grover) Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 53C875 SCSI-adapter and DOS Message-ID: <199909122136.PAA02200@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <7rh1eu$in8$1@news1.xs4all.nl> from Grover at "Sep 12, 1999 10:11:13 pm"
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Grover wrote... > Hello there, > > I have bought a Symbios 53C875 SCSI-adapter and a Quantum Viking II > harddrive. Now I want to use this SCSI-drive as my boot-drive with windows. > > I can select in my system-bios (Award) the drive to start from (C/A/SCSI), > so that must not be the problem. I managed to make my SCSI drive bootable > with FDISK. > > DOS doesn't see my adapter (and drives). I have put some files on the win98 > startup disk. I downloaded these files from the LSIlogic homepage > (DOS-drivers). These files are : > > symc8xx.sys and aspidisk.sys. I put some lines in config.sys > (Device=symc8xx.sys and Device=aspidisk.sys). Now DOS must see my adapter... > but DOS doesn't see it, while FDISK in DOS does. I find this strange. > > If I only knew how to let DOS see my SCSI drive, I could put Windows on it. > > My Windows 98 system says that I can't put an older windows (95 rel. 25) on > my system, so I must do this in DOS. > > I hope someone can help me with this. This is a FreeBSD mailing list, not a DOS or Windows mailing list. Unless you can explain how your problem relates to FreeBSD, I'd suggest you look elsewhere for help. (LSI or Microsoft support would probably be a good place to start.) Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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