>Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 21:44:56 -0700
>From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>

>So I think, "OK, I have to back up the DOS and Windoze that's on here first,
>then I can re-partition and install".  So I swap out the 2940 for the 1542CF
>and reboot.  A message comes up that essentially says "Can't find the
 operating
>system"!

Most PC SCSI adapters (including all 154X cards) have BIOS ROM on
them.  The card's BIOS ROM supplements the system's BIOS ROM so that
the system can boot from a SCSI disk hosted by that card.  If the
card's BIOS ROM is disabled or otherwise inaccessible, you can't boot
from it.

One of two things is probably happening:

1) The 1542CF's BIOS ROM is disabled.
2) The 1542CF's BIOS ROM is being mapped into the Pentium PC's address
space at a location that is already being used by another chunk of
ROM.  Hence the 1542CF's ROM is "invisible."

The solution to both problems is to use the 1542CF's software config
tool to enable the card's BIOS ROM, and map it to an otherwise unused
location in the ISA memory hole.
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