From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Sep 12 14:36:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF17414DD6 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 14:36:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA02200; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:36:33 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Message-Id: <199909122136.PAA02200@panzer.kdm.org> Subject: Re: 53C875 SCSI-adapter and DOS In-Reply-To: <7rh1eu$in8$1@news1.xs4all.nl> from Grover at "Sep 12, 1999 10:11:13 pm" To: skyllaonline@hotmail.com (Grover) Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:36:33 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Kenneth D. Merry" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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