7 Apr
2007
7 Apr
'07
6:04 p.m.
john ball wrote:
I then attached a seagate ST-296N 80+ meg hard drive,
set it to ID 1 and
powered the system on.
The card detects the drive and the system addresses it as C: and then
because the drive is not formatted I have to floppy boot and patition
and format it.
Do you know it's a) working and b) low-level formatted to 512 bytes/sector?
I suspect DOS might just query the fact that there's a drive there, without
any knowledge of whether it'd be capable of reading/writing data.
Usually what happens is that if the system can't
find anything to boot
from, it will dump you into the onboard BASIC. When the card is
installed and there is nothing to boot from, I instead get "looking for
SCSI or floppy devices to boot from". Is there anyway for me to stop it
looking for something to boot from and go to BASIC? To me it really
limits me to using basic off disks.
I assume the ROM on the SCSI board is taking over control of the system boot -
and probably has no knowledge that BASIC is actually lurking in the host
system's ROM. If you get to the point of being able to boot DOS from a SCSI
disk, I bet there's a way to hop into the system's on-board BASIC via the DOS
debug program...