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Disk Drive Configuration Problems, Booting the Computer from a SCSI Driv

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103 Time-out failure during SCSI Inquiry command! Time-out failure during SCSI Test Unit Ready command! Time-out failure during Start Unit command! An unexpected time-out occurred. Check SCSI bus termination. Try disconnecting the SCSI peripheral cables from the SCSI controller and then starting the computer. If the computer successfully restarts, check SCSI bus termination and cable connections. One of the devices on the SCSI bus may be defective. Disk Drive Configuration Problems This section describes situations that may occur if your computer has multiple disk drives, including combinations of standard disk drives and SCSI disk drives. Note: "Standard disk drive" means a disk drive attached to the computer through a standard ISA/EISA, non-SCSI disk controller-for example, an IDE drive. Standard hard disk drives can be set to the installed or not installed state by the Setup program supplied with the host computer. The Setup program allows you to select the number of standard hard disks that are recognized by the computer, regardless of whether they are physically installed. SCSI drives are not controlled through the Setup program. If both SCSI and non-SCSI disk drives are installed, then the non-SCSI disk drive is always the boot device. Booting the Computer from a SCSI Driv 1. Be sure that the SCSI boot drive is set to SCSI ID 0 and that there are no SCSI ID conflicts. Check the drive installation manual for information about setting the SCSI ID for that device. You can use the SCSISelect utility to determine the SCSI IDs of devices on the SCSI bus. See the section "Host Adapter SCSI ID". 2. Be sure that parity checking is consistently enabled or disabled on all devices on the SCSI bus. See the section "SCSI Parity Checking". 3. Try enabling Include in BIOS Scan in the SCSI Device Configuration option of the SCSISelect utility. See the section "SCSI Device Configuration". 4. Be sure to cycle the power OFF and ON after changing any values on a SCSI controller, in a Setup program, or on a SCSI device. Doing this ensures that the new initial values are loaded.

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103
Time-out failure during SCSI Inquiry command!
Time-out failure during SCSI Test Unit Ready command!
Time-out failure during Start Unit command!
An unexpected time-out occurred. Check SCSI bus termination. Try disconnecting
the SCSI peripheral cables from the SCSI controller and then starting the
computer. If the computer successfully restarts, check SCSI bus termination and
cable connections. One of the devices on the SCSI bus may be defective.
Disk Drive Configuration Problems
This section describes situations that may occur if your computer has multiple disk
drives, including combinations of standard disk drives and SCSI disk drives.
Note: “Standard disk drive” means a disk drive attached to the computer
through a standard ISA/EISA, non-SCSI disk controller—for example, an
IDE drive.
Standard hard disk drives can be set to the
installed
or
not installed
state by the
Setup
program supplied with the host computer. The
Setup
program allows you to
select the number of standard hard disks that are recognized by the computer,
regardless of whether they are physically installed. SCSI drives are not controlled
through the
Setup
program.
If both SCSI and non-SCSI disk drives are installed, then the non-SCSI disk drive
is
always
the boot device.
Booting the Computer from a SCSI Driv
1.
Be sure that the SCSI boot drive is set to SCSI ID 0 and that there are no SCSI
ID conflicts. Check the drive installation manual for information about setting
the SCSI ID for that device. You can use the SCSI
Select
utility to determine
the SCSI IDs of devices on the SCSI bus. See the section “Host Adapter SCSI
ID”.
2.
Be sure that parity checking is consistently enabled or disabled on all devices
on the SCSI bus.
See the section “SCSI Parity Checking”.
3.
Try enabling Include in BIOS Scan in the SCSI Device Configuration option
of the SCSI
Select
utility. See the section “SCSI Device Configuration”.
4.
Be sure to cycle the power OFF and ON after changing any values on a SCSI
controller, in a
Setup
program, or on a SCSI device. Doing this ensures that
the new initial values are loaded.