60GB: 11/21/96-i430VX-2A59GF5cc-00

[edwin]

Recommended by Wim's BIOS...

[edwin]

use rar compression instead of lzh

best of luck.

[ajzchips]

Could removing the logo help a little bit?

hello rainbow,

have testet the version. it seems to be alright. system boots. only bios is locked by password. i think you´re on the right way.




gmc

[Rainbow]

Clear CMOS. Connect the new HDD, boot from floppy, run FDISK and check if it detects more than 8.4GB.

@ rainbow

sorry, my fault.
at first try, time was to short for cmos clearing. now after ten minutes it worked properly. hdd is detected from bios and from fdisk.



gmc

[edwin]

ah, more work to do then Rainbow

[Rainbow]

OK, will try to remove the HDD Low Level Format function from the BIOS to save some space and insert some SCSI BIOS there.

gmc: What SCSI BIOS was in your original BIOS? I mean version, etc. - that does it display at boot? The SCSI BIOS is compressed using some unknown method so I can't see the strings inside.

hello rainbow,

it´s an adaptec scsi bios; scsiselect utility v 1.26 for aic-7880 chip.
post message while booting:

Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra/Ultra W Bios
( c ) 1996 Adaptec, Inc. All Rights Reserved
<<< Press <Ctrl< <A> for SCSISelect (TM)Utility!>>>
SCSI ID : LUN NUMBER # ; # 1: 0 -xxxx
...
...
...
Bios Installed Successfully!

is there anything else to do? let me know!




gmc

[Rainbow]

The Low Level Format is successfully removed - BIOS is smaller and still works (tested on PC Chips M520). Now I'm going to find the best AIC-7880 BIOS that will fit there.

[Rainbow]

Sent two BIOSes with different SCSI BIOSes - please report the versions of them. Tested both on PC Chips M520 board and they work.

Does anyone know what's the name/model number of this board?

@ Rainbow

thanks for sending updated bios.
I´ll try them very soon.

Best Regards



gmc

Hello Rainbow

Sorry, because I´m late with my test report. There are many problems!
V1 seems to be work for a week, just one cd rom at SCSI auto scan doesn´t recognized. The message "Press CTRL A for SCSI Bios" at post doesn´t appear. But works.
Changes in SCSI Bios doesn´t save to cmos. Now the systems doesn´t boot with enabled SCSI Chip.

After this I tried V2. Now all SCSI units will be recognized. The system boots normal. Only in SCSI Bios during Unit scanning there is a problem. The system hang after SCSI ID 6 is shown. System break with time out error.


Best Regards
gmc

[Rainbow]

What were the SCSI BIOS versions in V1 and V2? Sent V3 with another version.

Hi Rainbow


V1 is the file with the size of 118237 bytes, compressed.
V2 is the file with the size of 118215 bytes, compressed.

I´ll try V3 tonight.




Greets
gmc