Disk controllers and weird booting rituals.

[Jonathan Bayer]

In article <372 at merk.UUCP> brennan at merk.UUCP (Rich Brennan) writes:
>
>  I've just upgraded to this WD-1007 ESDI controller, and it has this
>weird boot sequence:
>
>	  Hard reset the machine (i.e. the reset button), and the machine
>	does its RAM scan, etc. I get a "Hard Disk Controller failed"
>	message from (I think) my BIOS. However, if I do a "soft" reset


What kind of computer are you running? What BIOS?  It could be a problem
in the BIOS not recognizing the card correctly.

JB

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