--On 02 June 2005 22:19 +0300, Alex Stamatis wrote:
I just saw the dmesg and you were right. It says that Host adapter Bios disabled. Using default scsi device parameters. So how do I get to enable the scsi adapters bios ? The adapter is AIC-7850 and the hdd is a seagate.
AIC-7850 is the chip, not the card. The chip can be used on cards (e.g. AVA2906, which doesn't have a BIOS, and probably some others which do have a BIOS) and on various motherboards (e.g. Iwill P54TS) where the BIOS is in the *motherboard's* flash ROM stored as a module after the machine's BIOS.
Armed with the above information and a copy of cbrom, you might find a way to extract the relevant ROM image and insert it to your motherboard BIOS, but in the past I've trashed a number of motherboard BIOSes while experimenting with flashes, so you probably don't want to listen to me anyway, especially if you value the board and don't have a way to recover if it goes wrong.
