User's Guide

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Adaptec SCSI Card 39320D User’s Guide for Floppy Disks (OEM)
■ If the card driver will not load and you do not have your boot
hard disk drive attached to the card, try removing all the cables
and devices from the card then starting up.
If this is successful and the driver loads, then you may have a
problem with a device setting (conflicting SCSI ID numbers or
Termination setting) or you have a bad cable or cable
connection. Reattach devices one at a time until the problem is
isolated, remembering to follow the correct termination
procedure for the SCSI bus. For more information on
termination, see Terminating the SCSI Bus on page 1-6.
What do I do if I am having a resources conflict?
Physically move the Adaptec SCSI card to another PCI slot. It may
be necessary to swap its position with a PCI card that is already in
the system. By doing this, the order that the system finds the SCSI
cards will be changed and the system can assign different
resources to the SCSI cards.
What do I do when during boot, the Adaptec SCSI Card 39320D
banner comes up but the system hangs?
Go into SCSISelect and choose the settings for the device that are
more appropriate for the device time.
All narrow devices should have the option for Initiate Wide set to
No and the Maximum transfer rate should be set to the fastest that
the device supports, usually 20 MB/sec. (check your device
documentation for this information). Setting the speed any faster
for these devices will not improve performance of the device and
can make the SCSI bus unstable. This can also be caused by
incorrect termination, a resource conflict, or a bad device or cable.
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