I mis-spoke(wrote?) when describing a DOS portion of
the boot process. I should have said the POST portion
(power on self test) when hardware initializes prior
to OS loading. WinNT/2k/XP do not, in fact, have DOS
boot routines.
However, the scsi bios not loaded will not prevent
non-bootable scsi devices from working (I have such a
setup on my pc; bootable scsi card on which I don't
load a scsi bios, and only scanners and cdr/rw drives
attached.)
Pat
--- filmscanner@gmx.net wrote:
> > It sounds like the scanner isn't being recognized
> during the boot process.
> > The SCSI bios not found message just means that
> the bootstrap enabling
> > bios isn't on your scsi card (or not enabled in
> the scsi card's setup).
>
> I believe that this is the problem. If the SCSI BIOS
> is not installed, then
> the driver under XP cannot access the very same SCSI
> BIOS to access the
> scanner.
>
> > During the DOS portion of your PC's boot process,
> does the scsi card
> announce the
> > presence of the scanner?
>
> NT/2K/XP does not *have* a DOS portion of booting,
> as far as I know. (I run
> NT4, but I run under onboard SCSI (adaptec, too) and
> boot from SCSI disk. So
> if my SCSI BIOS does not install, I definitely don't
> boot up!)
>
> > If not, it might be a termination problem. It
> might also be something as
> > prosaic as the scanner not being powered up when
> booting. This is a deal
> > breaker with scsi under NT/2K/XP.
>
> When I don't power on my SS4000, it just does not
> show up as a device during
> SCSI installation. And of course, I cannot access it
> later when NT is up.
>
> I agree on this being possibly a termination
> problem. Are there other
> devices on the board? If you do a ctrl-A on the
> black screen (lets you access the
> SCSI setup), make sure that the scanner is marked as
> a SCSIII device (less
> than 10MB data transfer rate - there's a writeup on
> the Polaroid site citing the
> specifics).
>
> I only had my SCSI BIOS not install when I had
> changed the BIOS inherent
> termination for SE/UW devices (my board is an Asus
> P2B-S, similar to adaptec
> AHA2940U2W card) to none.
>
> Best regards, Barbara
>
> --
> GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet.
>
>
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