Adaptec 1742A User Manual

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Problems Booting the System from a SCSI Drive• Make sure that both standard fixed disks are mapped outof the system.• Make sure that the SCSI boot drive address is set to SCSIID 0:0. Check the drive installation manual for informa-tion about setting the SCSI ID for that device. TheReturn Installed Devices utility in the Onboard utilitiescan also be used to determine the SCSI addresses of pe-ripherals on the SCSI bus.• Make sure that SCSI parity is consistently enabled or dis-abled on all devices on the SCSI bus.• Verify the proper installation and configuration of thehost adapter and SCSI devices.• Power should be cycled OFF and ON after changing anyvalues on a host adapter,setup program, or SCSI device,to be sure that a DOS format operation has been success-fully completed.• Make sure that the SCSI bus is properly terminated.• Make sure that the intended boot disk has an active DOSpartition and a DOS format.• Check the cabling.Problems Using a SCSI and a Standard DiskDriveThe drives are configured as SCSI disk drive D and standard diskdrive C.• Make sure that the second standard fixed disk is mappedout of the system.adaptec AHA-1740A/1742A/17447-4