Why wouldn t an AHA-2940 BIOS banner be displayed when installing the AHA-2940?
Either the board is not in a bus mastering slot, or the PCI slot is not enabled for bus mastering in the CMOS setup. Check your motherboard manual to find out if the slot is bus mastering, or how to enable bus mastering for that slot. In Windows NT 3.5x, I was using the AHA-294x. However it recently went out on me. I purchased a new AHA-294x (with the new 1.2 BIOS) and plugged it into my system. Now on boot, I get the blue screen memory dump with the error In_Accessible_Boot_Device”. What do I need to do? If your boot partition is FAT, locate your 7800 Family Manager Set v1.20 diskette, or download 7800WNT.EXE for Adaptec s BBS, FTP, or WWW site. Boot off a DOS diskette. Go to your \WINNT35\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS directory. At this point insert your 7800 Family Manager Diskette and COPY A:\WINNT\3_5\AIC78XX.SYS. Remove the disk from the floppy drive and reboot. If your boot partition is NTFS, locate your 7800 Family Manager Set v1.20 diskette, or download 7800WNT.EXE for Adaptec s BBBS, FTP,
