Help needed with LSI logica SCSI controller

mikka84 · 7 Mar 2007 at 23:19

I have just installed LSI logic meagRaid SCSI 320-2e controller and just won't work. Now I looked up in the installation manual on LSI official website and it specifically says that I need to go to scsi bios (cntrl+m) and it wont let me, as a matter of fact it doesn't even display the controllers setup. I am running evga 680i mobo and 2 15k.4 cheetahs on it (80pin drives + 68pin cable, 68pin to 80pin converter and a terminator). Now I dont really think its the drive's fault or the cable fault cause the pc wont detect the controller card whatsoever. Now the question is is the card borked or is there something I'm missing? I know some people are running scsi raid array on similar setup (ie. 680i mobo) so I dont think its compatibility issue. Any help is highly appreciated

thanx

naro · 8 Mar 2007 at 00:03

do you see the SCSI controller's BIOS running during startup?

mikka84 · 8 Mar 2007 at 08:12

nope. I've got 3 pcie sockets, tried every single one with different gfx card configuration and none seem to detect it

naro · 8 Mar 2007 at 13:03

your SCSI controller could be dead.

my Adaptec 39160 could not be detected on startup and its dead.

cavemanoc · 8 Mar 2007 at 18:13

Yep - it's starting to look that way - I know you've tried all the obvious things, but just to make sure there are a couple of things you can try:

1. Just the card, not drives, should show up in the boot sequence.
-Ensure the pci-e slots are set to min of 8x
-Try in all slots (I know you tried this)
-Try with an old Pci video card
2. Take off the iTBBU and see if it boots
3. Take off the memory and see if it complains (should beep and give you a text message)

Do you get new beeps on startup that weren't there before?

If all that shows no sign it's probably broken - send it my way and I'll test it, or just get hold of the seller and RMA it to him. (Should be possible even with Fleabay!)

matja · 8 Mar 2007 at 18:50

Look arround your BIOS for 'force int19h hook' or similar and make sure that's enabled.

Might be an incompatibility, a few Intel PCIe gigabit NIC's i've tried haven't worked on Nvidia chipset, yet work great on Intel chipsets - can you try it in another system? You could try booting a FreeDOS CD/floppy or a Linux livecd and doing 'lspci', if its listed there then theres a good chance it works, but is not being used for booting.

Try disabling any onboard RAID and network boot (PXE) if you can, too. The boot ROMs from all potential PCI boot devices have to be copied to RAM before calling the entrypoint on each one, if there is too much to copy then sometimes a BIOS will not copy them all, and will skip the BIOS routine on them.