> It sounds like the scanner isn't being recognized during the boot process.
> The SCSI bios not found message just means that the bootstrap enabling
> bios isn't on your scsi card (or not enabled in the scsi card's setup).
I believe that this is the problem. If the SCSI BIOS is not installed, then
the driver under XP cannot access the very same SCSI BIOS to access the
scanner.
> During the DOS portion of your PC's boot process, does the scsi card
announce the
> presence of the scanner?
NT/2K/XP does not *have* a DOS portion of booting, as far as I know. (I run
NT4, but I run under onboard SCSI (adaptec, too) and boot from SCSI disk. So
if my SCSI BIOS does not install, I definitely don't boot up!)
> If not, it might be a termination problem. It might also be something as
> prosaic as the scanner not being powered up when booting. This is a deal
> breaker with scsi under NT/2K/XP.
When I don't power on my SS4000, it just does not show up as a device during
SCSI installation. And of course, I cannot access it later when NT is up.
I agree on this being possibly a termination problem. Are there other
devices on the board? If you do a ctrl-A on the black screen (lets you access
the
SCSI setup), make sure that the scanner is marked as a SCSIII device (less
than 10MB data transfer rate - there's a writeup on the Polaroid site citing the
specifics).
I only had my SCSI BIOS not install when I had changed the BIOS inherent
termination for SE/UW devices (my board is an Asus P2B-S, similar to adaptec
AHA2940U2W card) to none.
Best regards, Barbara
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