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Can't boot from Yamaha CRW4416S
If you're talking about booting to an SCSI drive, you have to have "boot
from SCSI" enabled in your BIOS, and it have to be before the HD in the boot sequence. "Fishface" ? wrote in message ... Does anyone have this drive, and can you boot from it? I posted this to the SCSI group, but got no response: I put the Yamaha CRW4416S and Tekram DC-390F together with a Quantum Viking II 9.1GB drive and tried to install the OS from CD. It won't boot from the CD. "Boot from CD-ROM" is enabled in the adapter settings. Both devices are recognized in the bios scan. The HD still has an old installation of XP Home that wasn't activated and when booted into safe mode (the only way to get in) it is able to read the CD. I had these parts together in my old BX board, and am almost certain I was able to boot from the CD. All firmware is current, 3.23 for the Tekram and 1.0j on the Yamaha. The Yamaha spins-up, as if examining the disk to see if it is bootable, but it proceeds to boot from the HD. I also tried a bootable Symantec disk without success. Synchronous and wide negotiation are disabled as per Yamaha 'site instructions. I'm stumped. Any ideas? I guess I'll have to scrounge-up a floppy drive from somewhere... Thanks for any help! |
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Dan G wrote:
If you're talking about booting to an SCSI drive, you have to have "boot from SCSI" enabled in your BIOS, and it have to be before the HD in the boot sequence. There are no IDE devices at all, so that's not the problem. It boots from the SCSI HD regardless of the SCSI adapter bios setting to "boot from CD-ROM." |
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Some motherboards/BIOS cannot boot from more than one SCSI device, they pick
the first one they see. Still suggest you look at your BIOS and see what choices you have. "Fishface" ? wrote in message ... Dan G wrote: If you're talking about booting to an SCSI drive, you have to have "boot from SCSI" enabled in your BIOS, and it have to be before the HD in the boot sequence. There are no IDE devices at all, so that's not the problem. It boots from the SCSI HD regardless of the SCSI adapter bios setting to "boot from CD-ROM." |
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Fishface wrote: Dan G wrote: If you're talking about booting to an SCSI drive, you have to have "boot from SCSI" enabled in your BIOS, and it have to be before the HD in the boot sequence. There are no IDE devices at all, so that's not the problem. It boots from the SCSI HD regardless of the SCSI adapter bios setting to "boot from CD-ROM." If there is an utility for the SCSI host utility, run it and set it to boot from the SCSI ID that is for the Yamaha drive. The otherwise alternative would be to assign the CDROM a target ID of 0 and the HD an unused ID that is greater than 0, i.e., swap their ID numbers. |
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GHalleck wrote:
If there is an utility for the SCSI host utility, run it and set it to boot from the SCSI ID that is for the Yamaha drive. Yep, tried that. The otherwise alternative would be to assign the CDROM a target ID of 0 and the HD an unused ID that is greater than 0, i.e., swap their ID numbers. I tried that too. I tried putting it on the 50 pin cable alone and terminating it. It just will not boot. I reseated the card and checked the pins. I have even considered flashing to prior firmware revisions but I am just getting tired of messing with it... |
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Ghostrider wrote:
There are some alternatives at kick-starting a SCSI setup, including using a bootable diskette with the SCSI drivers programmed into it. I had tried that at great effort. The setup program said it would not run in MSDOS mode, and I couldn't find another installation program (Win2k). I'm not sure what the heck it does when you boot from the CD. So I got four floppies and use the "Makeboot" utility. I *hate* floppies, they are sooo slow. Three times I tried, and three times, it got to the end of the fourth floppy and hung at "Starting Windows..." It is occasionally nice to have a IDE, bootable cdrom drive handy for OS installations. Had I only known. I guess I'll go pillage another computer, now... |
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Fishface wrote: Ghostrider wrote: There are some alternatives at kick-starting a SCSI setup, including using a bootable diskette with the SCSI drivers programmed into it. I had tried that at great effort. The setup program said it would not run in MSDOS mode, and I couldn't find another installation program (Win2k). I'm not sure what the heck it does when you boot from the CD. So I got four floppies and use the "Makeboot" utility. I *hate* floppies, they are sooo slow. Three times I tried, and three times, it got to the end of the fourth floppy and hung at "Starting Windows..." It is occasionally nice to have a IDE, bootable cdrom drive handy for OS installations. Had I only known. I guess I'll go pillage another computer, now... Been there. The drivers for the SCSI host card needs to be specified at the beginning of the Windows 2000 setup...even for Adaptec cards. (Go figure.) In the Windows 98 setup, this is avoided since its bootup floppy contains the drivers for the major SCSI host card brands. Anyway, the first Win2K floppy will ask the installer to hit the F6 key if any special drivers are needed. This is a lesson learned after the first pass ends up in total failure. However, the SCSI drivers, which must be on a floppy diskette, are not asked for until somewhere in the 4th (maybe 3rd) setup diskette. (P.S.: Being an oldtime, SCSI user, I agree with Ghostrider's remark about having a boot-capable, IDE CDROM player available.) |
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Tritium wrote:
Been there. The drivers for the SCSI host card needs to be specified at the beginning of the Windows 2000 setup...even for Adaptec cards. (Go figure.) Yeah, I did that. I deleted the NTFS partition that the old XP Home install was on and then all went well! In the Windows 98 setup, this is avoided since its bootup floppy contains the drivers for the major SCSI host card brands. Anyway, the first Win2K floppy will ask the installer to hit the F6 key if any special drivers are needed. This is a lesson learned after the first pass ends up in total failure. However, the SCSI drivers, which must be on a floppy diskette, are not asked for until somewhere in the 4th (maybe 3rd) setup diskette. Yeah, a little feedback would be nice on that F6, and maybe a second chance later if you miss-it... |
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