Windows Nt Troubleshooting; Error Messages While Setting Up Windows Nt - Adaptec AAA-130U2 Installation And Hardware Manual

AAA-130U2 Series Installation and Hardware Guide
Does each channel and each device on the channel have a
unique SCSI ID?
If you are having trouble booting from a SCSI disk drive or
array, make sure your computer's CMOS setup is set to No
Drives Installed (the required setting for SCSI drives). Also,
verify that the drive or array has been selected as the boot-first
(boot) device and that the boot partition is active.
If you receive the Drive not ready message, make sure the Send
Start Unit command in SCSISelect is set to Yes for the suspect drive.

Windows NT Troubleshooting

Error Messages While Setting Up Windows NT

"Setup is unable to locate the hard drive partition prepared by the
MS-DOS portion of setup"
or
"xxxx MB disk y at Id z on bus 0 on cda1000.sys does not contain a
partition suitable for starting Window NT"
If these messages appear during Windows NT setup, do the
following:
1
Reboot the system using the ARRAYCONFIG U2 disk.
2
Run the ARRAYCONFIG U2 utility to ensure that the boot
array includes the drive with the lowest SCSI target ID.
"Boot: Couldn't find NTLDR"
If this message appears when attempting to boot from the Windows
NT installation CD, boot from the Windows NT installation floppy
disks instead, and proceed to load Windows NT from the CD-ROM.
"No Accessible Boot Device"
When attempting to boot from the Windows NT installation CD, this
message indicates that the NT CD-ROM does not contain
Array1000U2 drivers. To avoid this failure, try the following:
1
Reboot the Windows NT installation CD.
2
When the prompt "Setup is inspecting your computer system's
hardware" appears, press the F6 key repeatedly.
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