On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 19:46:20 +0100, Bob H wrote:
Bob H wrote:
I don't know yet; I haven't tried that, but have considered removing the
ide cable from the dvd writer.
System is busy downloading 3 cds at the moment, so will try tomorrow.
Thanks
JAD wrote:
what happens when you remove the other drives, will it then boot from
the SCSI?
"Bob H" wrote in message
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Ralph Wade Phillips wrote:
Howdy!
"Bob H" wrote in message
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The boot sequence is set at 'CDROM' first boot device.
Well, duh. You've TOLD it to boot off of the DVD.
Tell it SCSI first, and then see what happens.
Errr, where will I find the SCSI setup routine?
When the machine boots, you should see a post about
something like
"Press (Ctrl-A) for SCSI Setup" or somesuch, depending on the host
adapter you use. Do that.
RwP
I have now changed it to boot from SCSI. There is nothing in the
POST screen for scsi setup. My SCSI CDRW drive is connected to an Adaptec
card.
For clarification, I used to have a SCSI CDRW and an IDE CDROM, and
the SCSI CDRW was the 1st boot device even tho' it was set at CDROM.
Now I have a DVD writer and it will only boot my CDs
The SCSI CDRW is drive letter R, and the DVD Writer is drive letter
Q
Thanks
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Bob H
Leeds UK
Ok, update here.
I disconnected the dvd drive, and put a bootable cdr in the scsi CDRW
drive. Switched the machine on, set BIOS to boot from SCSI, rebooted;
result: nothing! So just for arguments sake I set the BIOS to boot from
CDROM, and tried again, same thing nothing. The CDR would not boot from
the scsi CDRW drive, but will from the dvd drive!!!
Oh well thanks for trying.
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On your Adaptec card, when it's booting, as soon as you see the Adaptec banner,
hit control A to get into the SCSI bios. The SCSI bios is on the SCSI card not
in the motherboard bios. Make sure the options in the scsi bios are set to
load the scsi bios. Also make sure your SCSI card bios is set to boot from the
SCSI ID of the CDROM. Make sure the device (CCROM) is slated in the scsi bios
to be seen by bios scan.
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