ISSUES with XP installation or repairs on SCSI 29160 or 19160.

XP installation or repairs on SCSI 29160 or 19160. ( will work for
2940's too)
my experiences.

there are many issues:
but I will assume you have a 29160 with the correct cable with term.
resistor at the end of cable per SCSI 3 spec. And high speed , 10k or
15k rpm LVD hard drivers ( ie , fast).
I assume all this H/W works fine , above. ( no old legacy drives ,
scsi 1 or 2)

The live XP made (by click format a: +bootdisk) disk will never work
(no drivers for SCSI)
next:
the BIOS must support SCSI and IDE , one or the other or both , if not
Flash your MOBO or
buy a modern bug free mobo that contains BIOS that really works.
set boot order to CROM then HD0 ( my mobo had SCSI boot, but this is
inop)
I assume your Control +A , finds the drive and will run low level
verify with out errors.

Booting form the XP CDrom OEM should find your SCSI drive and operate
it just fine.
if it does not , you do have problems.
Many times I just format these drives on another system and then format
them to NTFS.
This sort of greases the skid , so to speak.

I also set the volume lable to NEW XP , so I will never make the
mistake of installing XP to the wrong volume in a multivolume system (
heck remove the other drivers first, just to be safe).

the install should now work.
to fix a broken MBR.

boot form the XP install disk.
wait for the first menu to come up and wait.
then hit Shift + F10 , this loads the recovery console.
then hit 1 for volume 1
then enter your admin pw .
now type FIXMBR.

your MBR is now good.

this worked after I deleted LINUX Suse 10 and grub.
system now boots again to XP.
good luck one and all.

PS if you have RAID, please read Adaptec specs and FAQs
-------XP, XP PRO, SCSI , adaptec AHA-20160 high speed scsi
systems.------------

You "format the drives on another system",why,booting to xp cd,recovery,
you can format them in there after one uses the F6 option (you failed to
mention).Use A: FORMAT a boot diskette??? Never needed with xp...

"yamahog66@yahoo.com" wrote:

> XP installation or repairs on SCSI 29160 or 19160. ( will work for
> 2940's too)
> my experiences.
>
> there are many issues:
> but I will assume you have a 29160 with the correct cable with term.
> resistor at the end of cable per SCSI 3 spec. And high speed , 10k or
> 15k rpm LVD hard drivers ( ie , fast).
> I assume all this H/W works fine , above. ( no old legacy drives ,
> scsi 1 or 2)
>
> The live XP made (by click format a: +bootdisk) disk will never work
> (no drivers for SCSI)
> next:
> the BIOS must support SCSI and IDE , one or the other or both , if not
> Flash your MOBO or
> buy a modern bug free mobo that contains BIOS that really works.
> set boot order to CROM then HD0 ( my mobo had SCSI boot, but this is
> inop)
> I assume your Control +A , finds the drive and will run low level
> verify with out errors.
>
> Booting form the XP CDrom OEM should find your SCSI drive and operate
> it just fine.
> if it does not , you do have problems.
> Many times I just format these drives on another system and then format
> them to NTFS.
> This sort of greases the skid , so to speak.
>
> I also set the volume lable to NEW XP , so I will never make the
> mistake of installing XP to the wrong volume in a multivolume system (
> heck remove the other drivers first, just to be safe).
>
> the install should now work.
> to fix a broken MBR.
>
> boot form the XP install disk.
> wait for the first menu to come up and wait.
> then hit Shift + F10 , this loads the recovery console.
> then hit 1 for volume 1
> then enter your admin pw .
> now type FIXMBR.
>
> your MBR is now good.
>
> this worked after I deleted LINUX Suse 10 and grub.
> system now boots again to XP.
> good luck one and all.
>
> PS if you have RAID, please read Adaptec specs and FAQs
> -------XP, XP PRO, SCSI , adaptec AHA-20160 high speed scsi
> systems.------------
>
>