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
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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!