Michael Havens wrote:
> Hey guys,
> I have a scsi drive that I am using as my swap space but I am having a
> problem; that is that the computer will not detect it since I installed my
> new harddrive. After I put it in, the computer gives me a new error (I
> believe it is durring post. The message it gives me is:
> No scsi boot device found
> Also it tells me:
> SCSI BIOS not installed
>
> Now could it be that I do not have a terminator on the external port? If that
> is so why did the scsi drives work before? Do you think that this is why I am
> getting that error:
> scsi1: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x8
> scsi1: Data Parity Error Detecteddurring address or write data phase
> scsi1: WARNING WARNING WARNING
> scsi1: Too many PCI parity errors observed as a target.
> scsi1: Some device on this bus is generating bad parity.
> scsi1: This is an error *observed by*, not *generated by* this controller.
> scsi1: PCI parity checking has been disabled.
> scsi1: WARNING WARNING WARNING
>
> Then this segment repeats itsself every few seconds wit h the '8' in the first
> line changing to a 7 or 9
I would hazard a guess that since it worked till you added another drive, that
the new drive might be causing issues.
"SCSI Bios not installed" just means that the controller can't be used to boot
from (I get this on my system here). If you aren't trying to boot from it, then
it is no big deal.
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