Does IDE HDD and SCSI CD mix?

[Euphaz]

I have a Aopen AX6B running IDE hard disk boot.

Now i wanted to use my old AHA2940 SCSI adapter and connect Plextor SCSI CD-ROM and burner.

But i'm having difficulties making the software detect the setup.

Questions: Do some SCSI adapters NEED a hard disc on its bus (i know there's a bios on it)?

Is it important which PCI slot to use on that motherboard (1998 bios) regarding bus-master(it was on some older board)?

Thanks

 

[MISAdmin]

That should work fine... The SCSI adapteer doesn't care if you hang a bootable disk on it or not. If your adapter is working, you should be able to install it, then install the software for it and attach your peripherals...

If you insert the card, the AHA2940 has a BIOS on it, you should see it's BIOS message on system startup... even if you don't have a bootable drive plugged into it, it will still recognize the hardware...

I don't believe it makes a difference which slot you use to attach that card...

Are you sure the card is good?

 

[Euphaz]

The adapter initializes the drives, the correct names appear on the regular boot screen. They also appear in the adaptec bios setup (Ctrl-A).

But later during boot a message similar to this occours: "Could not initialize Int13 device, BIOS installation cancelled!"

Also i am running a museum windows95 (4.00.950), but the adapter worked on this OS on another motherboard.

The card might be broken as you said, know of any low level test-utilities?

 

[KarveR]

"Could not initialize Int13 device, BIOS installation cancelled!"

this would indicate that there is a non existant device configured in the scsi bios , hit ctrl+A when the card is starting and reset it to factory defaults
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[Euphaz]

Today i insterted a Win98 CD-ROM and the SCSI adapter 'installed the int13 bios' and booted like a dream!!

It is either the adapter requiring a bootable media on its bus, or windows95 is having problems with the adapter. I read somewhere Windows95 earlier had problems handling the bus-master devices on motherboards.

So I want to install Win98 via the CD, but Bill Gates does not allow me because of the existing OS. (You cannot install OEM on top on anoter OEM).

Question: How do you easily remove your older OEM windows installation without losing multiple partitions etc? I have 8 2GB partitions in win95 since it doesnt support larger drives, and i cannot lose the data.

Thanks!

 

[Euphaz]

The problem was the museum windows95. Probably bad drivers for the new motherboard.

I used another blank HDD to install a better OS, then added the Win95 drive as slave.

Finally I got the CD backup of my drive!