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Old October 26th 04, 10:11 PM
JAD
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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



  #12  
Old October 26th 04, 10:31 PM
Bob H
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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






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Bob H
Leeds UK
  #13  
Old October 27th 04, 07:46 PM
Bob H
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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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Old October 28th 04, 01:05 AM
Ralph Wade Phillips
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Howdy!

"Bob H" wrote in message
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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


  #15  
Old October 28th 04, 06:15 AM
Overlord
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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.
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