Strange Adaptec U320 Issue

[young_one]

So I recently decided to upgrade to Ultra 320 after I won a Adaptec 29320A on ebay for £6 (delivered).

Anyways I decided a fresh install would be the best idea and figured the 29320A would be to new for my Windows XP (SP2) disc, so checked the Adaptec site and found the lastest drivers - S10, put them on a floppy and booted of my XP disc.

I pressed 'F6' when prompted and a few seconds later the screen came up where you press S then put the floppy in. That went great it found all the options, well the xp32 and xp64 drivers, so I told it to install the xp 32 drivers and let the setup program continue.

After I had agreed to the EULA I was prompted as to which HDD I wanted to install to however found that my 36gb SCSI disk was not among them. So I think the Adaptec drivers somehow failed to install (and) or initialise.

This has happened with two different floppy discs, two SCSI cables (both rated for u320 and the bios concurres) and I am now open to suggestions.

Anyone heard of anything like this?

[Lazn_Work]

Does the SCSI card detect the drive?

==>Lazn

[young_one]

Yeah, comes up as scsi ID-0 in the bios, with a 16bit bus and syncing at 320.

Just tried and XP64 does the same. Will try a linux varitaion at somepoint tomorrow and see what that does.

Hostraid is disabled.

The card is in a PCI-X Slot running at 133mhz.

Machine is a dual Opteron 244 with 4gb ram.

The only device connected at the moment is a Maxtor Atlas 15k 36GB disk on ID-0.

The 29320A bios is the latest available 4.30

Cant remember the board model, think it is a MSI K8D Master-F (with latest Bios)

And using my old adaptec 39160 everything works fine, so I am thinking either the card is bad or that there is a incompatability in the drivers with my setup.

[Parabellum]

Have you tried updating the BIOS of the SCSI controller? These U320 controllers are fairly "old" nowadays so maybe a more recent BIOS could fix this.. :confused:

Para

[Parabellum]

Have you tried updating the BIOS of the SCSI controller? These U320 controllers are fairly "old" nowadays so maybe a more recent BIOS could fix this.. :confused:

Para

Yawn.. never mind. You already did try this. I did not read the entire post :rolleyes:

Para

[Lazn_Work]

You could try just adding the card to an existing install to see if the drives shows up in windows.

Also in the SCSI bios I know you used to be able to set the LUN target (the boot drive I think) is that set to the SCSI ID of the attached drive?

==>Lazn