Alex Stamatis wrote: > Thanks all of you that replied to my message. > > 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.
*sigh* Good thing Seagate only made one hard disk in their what, ~25 year history. Fortunately, the one mushy fact you provided explains the problem (the AIC7850 is a chip, used on a lot of different cards and on-board on some systems). I am sure it was luck. The AIC7850 is a low-end, usually not bootable (no on-board ROM, as in your case), and slower than any IDE interface in a Celeron-class system. It is intended to attach scanners or CDROMs or low-end tape drives to computers, not high-performance hard disks. I don't know why you are trying to run SCSI, but I think you are barking up a wrong tree. I've seen people use the logic, "SCSI is better than IDE. I'll run SCSI", and then slap five+ year old disks on a five+ year old controller and wonder why a brand new IDE whoops their butt five ways to Sunday. Your controller is not only old, but a horrible underperformer when it was brand new (but it was cheap!). By the time you get a good SCSI adapter, you could have purchased an IDE drive that will run much nicer, easier, etc. *PLEASE* sit down and read http://www.openbsd.org/report.html http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq2.html#Bugs Nick.
