Troubleshooting - Promise Technology FASTTRAK66 User Manual

Manual EN 05-08-1999 11:30
Configuring PCI IRQ resources
Setting the IRQ for a particular PCI slot will be different depending on the
motherboard BIOS. This setting is usually made in the PCI Configuration
and/or Plug and Play (PnP) section of the motherboard BIOS setup. There are
three common methods that motherboard BIOS's handle assignment of IRQs
to PCI slots:
1) Specifically assigning an IRQ to a particular slot - You can tell the mother
board to use IRQ 10 for PCI slot 1, IRQ 11 for PCI slot 2, etc.
2) Listing which IRQs are available to be assigned to the PCI slots - This
BIOS has an option where you specify "1st Available IRQ", "2nd Available
IRQ", etc. The BIOS then scans the PCI slots for PCI cards and assigns
these IRQs in the order that it finds the PCI cards.
3) Excluding an IRQ from being used by a PCI slot - If you have an ISA card
that is using an IRQ, change the setting for this particular IRQ from
"Available" to "used by ISA card" so that the motherboard will not assign
this IRQ to a PCI slot.
Consult your motherboard manual for information that is specific to your mot-
herboard.
Set Mainboard CMOS Boot sequence to boot to FastTrak66
On some Mainboard BIOS, it is necessary to set the Boot sequence to "SCSI,
A:, C:" since the Promise card is identified as a SCSI card.
Mainboard CMOS displays C: or D: drive failure during
startup
Do not reference C: or D: in the Mainboard Standard CMOS for drives atta-
ched to the FastTrak66 controller. Only enter drive information in the
Mainboard CMOS if you have drives attached to a conventional add-on or
onboard IDE controller.
Coexist with IDE hard drives
If an onboard IDE controller is installed with hard disks, enable support in the
Mainboard Standard CMOS Setup for the drives. Note that the onboard IDE
hard drives will then be the bootable hard disk unless the system BIOS has a
boot sequence setting with a "SCSI, A:, C:" option.
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