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sstupid ? scsi and ide hd. mixed? how do you get scsi as master?

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kingink

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Hi,
I have a scsi 29160 controller and two wd9.1GB ultra160 drives. I also have a wd 30.7GB hd. these drives are all formatted and have only w98 on them. the primary master, the wd30.7 is not recognized as master. The scsi drives boot up fine and all their partitions are recognized. the scsi devices are set to o and 1 for id's. What can i do to get the ide drive to be recognized? Should i set it to slave on its jumpers or turn off the boot aspect of scsi drive id 0? How would I do the latter.

changed the title
TIA
kingink
 
scsi does not have a master or slave setting. so that last question in the title is kinda messed up. the title should be more like, can't get IDE drive recognized in SCSI system.

so your 30.7 GB is IDE. is the IDE controller working\enabled\installed correctly? go to device manager...
 
The WD's I've dealt with have had a jumper setting for single drive. See if that's the problem.
 
Change your boot sequence in the bios with scsi first. Set IDE drive to slave, or better yet, set it to slave on the secondary IDE channel.
 
Definitely check the BIOS and be sure that SCSI is chosen in the Boot Sequence. I am running an Abit KA7 and have it set as follows:

Boot Order
CDROM
Floppy
SCSI

I totally eliminate IDE/UDMA from the list.
 
Thanks all. I am sorry about the stupid question. I should have asked is hot get the ide recognized and have the scsi boot? It is working right now with the wd ide set to slave on the primary and it boots up from that position. The scsi drives are recognized and are doing there job with video.
i have the asus p3v4x and was unable to get the setting for scsi under the boot menu in cmos. I checked the driver and that seemed fine, i.e. no x or exclamation point. I'll keep messing around with. I will try to eliminate ide from the boot chain and switch over to slave on secondary ide.
I think that this setup will only be temporary. I should have a new mobo like the CUSL2 or a dual mobo board.
Thanks again.
kingink
 
First of all, when you use mixed drives..that is IDE and SCSI drives, ORIGINALLY it was made so that IDE was always the boot device and the SCSI devices came up as the other drives..

This was a limitation of the BIOS, recent BIOS' have forgone(worked around) this limiation to provide, usually, a Boot Sequence variable in the BIOS that allows you to select which device to boot from, the usual optins are:

A, C, CDROM; C, A, CDROM; CDROM, C, A; SCSI, C, CDROM; C, SCSI, CDROM...and other variations thereof..

Now IF if you have such a option, then you would obvioiusly choose the one that makes the sequence SCSI, C, A and then you can safely set the IDE WD drive to be a SINGLE drive on the Primary IDE channel. This will have no affect and will not avoid the SCSI from booting..

On the other hand, if you don't have that option in the BIOS to tell the SCSI to boot as opposed to the IDE, then regardless of WHERE you place the IDE drive, it will always boot. So keeping that in mind, you might want to go to your motherboard manufacturer's site and see if they have a more recent version of the BIOS then the one you have, perhaps they've inclused this option.

My MB(Gigabyte) running Award BIOS has this option..Regards
 
Hi, thanks I figured how to change the boot sequence and can even boot from my cdrom now with those redhat cd's. I hope that someone else besides me gets some info out of this.
I have everything up and running. I guess I should change my sig.
kingink
 
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