On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Thomas Michael Wanka wrote:

> 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

I've got one of these cards.  Its silkcreened AVA-2902E/I but the press-on
label is just AVA-2902I.  Apparently its only used to support tapes,
cdroms and such, so probably of no use for booting.  I'm surprised it was
identified during the probe.  I tried it in my i586 last weekend and don't
remember getting any id at all, so I went with the AHA-1542CF.  Maybe I
shouldn't throw it out just yet ...

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