need help installing win2000 on scsci system

[bruincal]

I am trying to reinstall win2000 on a system that has a IDE hard drive, and two SCSCI DVD/CD RW drives. there was nothing wrong with the system; all the data just needed to be wiped... does anyone know how to make it boot off the SCSI cd drive? I am using an adaptec SCSCI card.. Because it is a SCSI device, it does not have the option to boot to that CD drive (only boot to IDE devices) ..
There is the Adaptec SCSISelect Utility at startup ... my dvd drive is #2 and my CD writer is #6 while my adapter is #7 on the SCSI bus... I selected #2 as bootup device, and put in my win2000 cd, but it does not startup from it...

Can someone show me a generalized walkthrough of how to boot to cd through a SCSI device? Thanks!

 

[sn00p]

Have you tried setting SCSI to boot first in the motherboard BIOS?
I've booted several times from my cdr/rw drive on my Adaptec card and it worked fine for me

 

[SemperFi]

I don't have an adaptec card but my scsi card bios has a boot cd option. I turn it off for normal use and turn it on when installing os.

Semper Fi

 

[neovan]

when it is detecting the devices on your scsi card...there should be some setup utility key that you can press (on my tekram scsi card it was F2) when you get to the configuration screen on the scsi card go to the cdrom drive you want to boot from and there should be some sort of options including "boot from this cd" or something like that. I hope that helps...I'm not real familiar with adaptec. good luck.

btw...it might help if you disable all your boot up devices and try setting your primary boot to scsi (if there is no such option just my first suggestion) then reenabling them after you have your OS setup!

 

[apothos]

First thing is check the BIOS and set the boot to either CD or SCSI, try CD first though. If it doesn boot might have to check the settings on the SCSI card, I think the Adaptec ones use Crtl-A to get to the settings, it should display on the screen during boot though.

 

[JustinLerner]

It may also depend upon additional motherboard BIOS settings besides Boot Device = SCSI.
On some motherboards, you need to select TypeF DMA control (enabled), other boards need to boot from a different order: F (being the first device, not C:, D:, E:, or CD-ROM [ATAPI]). Then the SCSI controller selects it's boot device. These options also depend upon the SCSI controller.

Would it help to set the boot device to #1 instead?
Doesn't hurt to try.

 

[SemperFi]

If Adaptec is like my card it doesn't matter what the motherboard bios is set at if the bootable cd enabled in the scsi bios. I noticed this when installing 2000 the first time. When 2000 done its first reboot I jumped into the MB bios and changed to ata/scsi and saved. When I came back after a few minutes there is a menu asking if I want to boot the cd.

Thats why my bootable cd option is turned on for one boot only. It gets real aggravating when you have to put in the OS cd for a driver or program and forget on a reboot. Especially when you walk away to do something while it boots.

 

[foofoo]

i have found with my scsi setup that i need to unplug the ide hard drive to install and boot on the scsi side (adaptec 19160) if you unplug the ide and your boot is set to scsi and search for other devices you shouldnt have any trouble. also dont forget f6 to install scsi drivers on install (if they're not built in)
good luck