SCSI AHA-2944UW cards

[Joe_157]

I have a Proliant 3000 with the latest ROM paq installed. I have installed 4 adaptec AHA-2944UW cards. No matter what slots I put any of the cards into under any order the boot screen will only show the first two being initialized. All 4 cards are seen in the servers boot up (F10) option and all 4 cards can see each other under the SCSI select properties and windows 2000 server can see them all. Any ideas what I can look into? Thanks

[Eugeny Brychkov]

Joe,
are these cards all work under OS?
Card initialization at bootup is done by server's bios calling card's integrated firmware, and maybe:
a) you have firmware address allocation conflict;
b) there's not enough memory to fit all firmwares for 4 cards and run them.
If these cards are really working under OS then I would not worry about initial server's bios initialization
Eugeny

[Joe_157]

There are no conflicts reported by W2KS or by CIM. The SCSI cards are currently in slot 5,6,7,8. Slot 4 is the network card and slot 4 has the array controller. Slot's 1 and 2 are empty.

[Alexander M. Ermes]

Hi there.
This URL might help :

http://www.adaptec.com/pdfs/installation_guides/aha2944uw_ig.pdf

Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

[Marino Meloni_1]

be sure they have all the last FW release

marino