Okay I'm building a new system from the ground up. I have everything installed in the case and all that. It's a 1.33GHz Athlon on an MSI K7T266 (VIA KT266) motherboard.
The SCSI controller I have is a Tekram DC-390U3W. Now let me explain how I've connected things...
Channel A of the card. One end of the cable is connected to the controller, the next plug on the cable is connected to a Seagate X15 HD(has no internal terminator), and the third and final plug on the cable has the Active terminator supplied with the card.
On Channel B, one end of the 50-pin cable is plugged into the controller, and the other end is plugged into a Plextor SCSI CD Rom which has an active terminator built in and enabled.
I have tried removing the jumpers that regular 33/66MHz PCI.
This system is being built from scratch - there is nothing on the HD. It is not formatted.
The reason why is that I get some message that looks like a standard copyright information you see on a lot of bootups that says something about LSI Logic and PCI and SCSI - nothing particularly important. And nothing else. My system stops there and does nothing. It doesn't look for the A drive. The system looked for the A drive when I tested it before installing the SCSI card - but now it just sits there. I'm not getting to the SCSI BIOS. I do not think it's a problem with the card because the system is obviously "seeing" the card (hence the LSI Logic (I think that's it) copyright.
I think either I've connected the cables incorrectly, terminated incorrectly, or modified the jumpers incorrectly. The only jumper configurations I have done were to take JP1 and JP2 jumpers off. But it did the same with them so I don't think that's it.
I'd appreciate any help here ASAP. I want to try out this baby.
For what it's worth the floppy is a little flakey. But even then the system should be asking for a boot disk or drive of some sort (it did before).
-J
The SCSI controller I have is a Tekram DC-390U3W. Now let me explain how I've connected things...
Channel A of the card. One end of the cable is connected to the controller, the next plug on the cable is connected to a Seagate X15 HD(has no internal terminator), and the third and final plug on the cable has the Active terminator supplied with the card.
On Channel B, one end of the 50-pin cable is plugged into the controller, and the other end is plugged into a Plextor SCSI CD Rom which has an active terminator built in and enabled.
I have tried removing the jumpers that regular 33/66MHz PCI.
This system is being built from scratch - there is nothing on the HD. It is not formatted.
The reason why is that I get some message that looks like a standard copyright information you see on a lot of bootups that says something about LSI Logic and PCI and SCSI - nothing particularly important. And nothing else. My system stops there and does nothing. It doesn't look for the A drive. The system looked for the A drive when I tested it before installing the SCSI card - but now it just sits there. I'm not getting to the SCSI BIOS. I do not think it's a problem with the card because the system is obviously "seeing" the card (hence the LSI Logic (I think that's it) copyright.
I think either I've connected the cables incorrectly, terminated incorrectly, or modified the jumpers incorrectly. The only jumper configurations I have done were to take JP1 and JP2 jumpers off. But it did the same with them so I don't think that's it.
I'd appreciate any help here ASAP. I want to try out this baby.
For what it's worth the floppy is a little flakey. But even then the system should be asking for a boot disk or drive of some sort (it did before).
-J