[NTLUG:Discuss] mixing scsi with ide

[Stephen Klein]

Scott Walters wrote:
> >> >
<snip>
> >> >You may need to turn on some features in
> >> >the SCSI controller's BIOS, you can usually get there by pressing Ctrl-A
> >> >(or similar) when the SCSI BIOS is detecting your devices at startup.
> >>> >Stephen
> 
> This was the problem, thanks Stephen.  The scsi card config had
> a setting for having the scsi card control the boot process or
> the motherboard. Once I set this to off, the motherboard took
> over and booted the scsi.
> 
> Scott
> 

Glad to at least point you in the right direction.

Each SCSI controller manufacturer seems to have their little "features"
that others don't.  One setup might work one way, but will cause all
kinds of wackyness if you do something so simple as (in your case) add
an IDE drive as a secondary drive.

SCSI usually works flawlessly if everything is right (including drivers
and OS).  An sometimes it's a pain trying to find out where the problem
is, especially when the OS is at fault (can you guess which OS?).

Anyone ever tried to install NT onto a SCSI disk off of an Adaptec RAID
adapter while booting from an IDE CDROM drive?  Kept getting an
'NO-ACCESSABLE BOOT DEVICE' error even though I loaded the danged driver
from the driver disk.  The only way I could ever do it (and hope to
never have to again) was to use the floppies, which is a problem when
you don't have them available.  Yeesh!

<Linux is better plug>
Linux is SO much easier. ;)
</Linux is better plug>
YMMV

<little voice>
Hey you Mr. 60 wpm typist, quit typing and send it already.
</little voice>

Oh, OK.
Time for bed, I'm hearing little voices now. :-P

Stephen


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