On 17 Mar 2000, at 20:39, Space Case wrote:

> I'm trying to set up a SCSI boot in my PC and m not having much luck.
> I got the disk all set up, but it appears the BIOS cannot see it.  I
> have an AMI Plug & Play BIOS, and the SCSI controller is an Adaptec
> AVA-2902I, which probes as an aic7850.  dmesg also reports "Host
> Adapter Bios disabled."  Is this why the BIOS cannot see it?  I looked
> on Adaptec's web site, but they don't seem to have a utility to play
> with this setting.  What to do?

Hi,

Adaptecs site has only info for the AVA-2902E, that controller has 
no Bios but needs a bus master slot, for more info see 
"http://www.adaptec.com/support/faqs/ava2902efaq.html"

mike