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what happens when you remove the other drives, will it then boot from
the SCSI? "Bob H" wrote in message ... Ralph Wade Phillips wrote: Howdy! "Bob H" wrote in message ... 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 -- Bob H Leeds UK |
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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 ... Ralph Wade Phillips wrote: Howdy! "Bob H" wrote in message ... 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 -- Bob H Leeds UK -- Bob H Leeds UK |
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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 ... Ralph Wade Phillips wrote: Howdy! "Bob H" wrote in message ... 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 -- 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. -- Bob H Leeds UK |
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Howdy!
"Bob H" wrote in message ... 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. If you're not getting the Adaptec BIOS signon, then you won't get a boot. You might have turned the BIOS off. There's utilities on the Adaptec web site to turn it back on. You might want to try that. BTW - Adaptec is the one that uses "Ctrl-A". RwP |
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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 ... Ralph Wade Phillips wrote: Howdy! "Bob H" wrote in message ... 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 -- 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. -- 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. ~~~~~~ Bait for spammers: root@localhost postmaster@localhost admin@localhost abuse@localhost ] ~~~~~~ Remove "spamless" to email me. |
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