Bootable SCSI CD-ROM

[hatboy]

I've got a Plextor UltraPlex 40x CD-ROM and a Plextor 4/12 CD-R both hooked up to a Diamond Fireport 20. I'm having a weird problem booting off of a cd. The drives work fine in Windows 2000 and I have bootable cd support enabled in the Fireport's bios. The bios for my motherboard (Epox KP6-BS) allows me to pick the first, second, and third boot devices in any order I want. However, to be able to boot from the CD-ROM, I have to completly remove HDD-0 (my only hard drive, primary master on the primary IDE channel) from the list of bootable devices. If I just add SCSI to the list before HDD-0, it still boots from the hard drive. So, a setting such as Floppy, SCSI, HDD-0 does not boot from the CD-ROM, but Floppy, SCSI, none does. This is annoying because I generally boot from my IDE hard drive, and it's a pain to have to change the settings in the bios every time I want to boot from a cd. Does anybody have any ideas? Thanks.

 

[Tseng]

I think this problem might be caused by your Fireport 20. My configuration is Tekram DC-390F with ASUS P3V4X and Plextor WidePlex 40X. If I setup boot from CD in SCSI BIOS, then no matter what I choose in MB BIOS, my system will boot from CD.

 

[hatboy]

Thanks for the response, Tseng. I was thinking the problem might be with my motherboard's bios, but I'm not really sure. Does anybody else have any ideas?