ESIX, ST01 SCSI, Booting from floppy HELP

[Derek Terveer]

In article <352 at swuts.swbt.com> ucmpme at swuts.swbt.com (1593]) writes:
> I have a 386SX clone, Seagate ST01 SCSI controller card and an
> ST296N hard drive.  When I insert the ESIX boot disk, and do either
> a reset or <CNTL><ALT><DEL>, the system does it usual stuff (BIOS msgs)
> then looks to the 'A' drive.  The light on the drive just stays on, and
> nothing else happens.

Esix does not support the st-01 controller as the booting controller.
You can use the public domain driver for the st-01 to control scsi
drives, but only if the drives are not bootable.  Thus, you must boot
off a MFM drive or a scsi drive with one of the supported controllers
and then access the other scsi drives via the st-01.  But if you are 
going to boot off a scsi drive, then you might as well use the same
scsi card to support the other drives.  (probably faster, too)

> If replacement is the only solution, what do you guys recommend?  Among
> the supported controllers are Adaptec 1542-, Future Domain 830 and 885,
> and the DPT Pm 3001/-- and PX3001/--.  I thought someone recently
> mentioned having installed ESIX with the Smartconnex scsi, but I dont
> know what drive was used.

Hmm, i am only aware of esix supporting the adaptec and future domain
controllers.  Most likely the adaptec would be a faster controller
because it uses bus master dma, but be warned -- not all motherboards
support this (bus master dma) feature!  There is a test on the
controller board that will report whether your motherboard supports
this or not.

derek
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