UGH! SCSI + IDE HD's.

[Jeriko]

Well I'm not having the problem that many people seem to complain about - ie the system trying to boot off the IDE. Lemme give the setup...

I'm using a MSI K7T266 Pro mainboard, and have been running a a Seagate X15 (boot drive).

So I bought an IBM Deskstar 60GB (IDE) for a storage drive (18 gigs just isn't what it used to be).

I installed it, and have the jumpers set to Primary and my Zip drive set to Slave. The systems shows these existence of this setup when booting, and recognizes the hard drive. In my BIOS, I set the 1st Boot to SCSI and the 2nd Boot to IDE-0.

The system boots off the Adaptec SCSI as normal - no problems. But there is no sign of the drive in Windows or DOS. Nothing to format.

The Zip drive shows up just fine, BTW.

So how do I get to access this hard drive to format it? What step am I missing? Something in the BIOS? Should it be a Secondary Primary instead of a Primary? Any ideas?

-J

 

[Richard98]

Since you said it was a new drive, I have to ask whether you Fdisk'ed it. I've tried to skip that step before.

 

[Jeriko]

I tried, but FDISK doesn't "see" it.

-J

 

[Richard98]

You're definitely going to have to be able to see it from fdisk. Have you tried changing the mb setting to boot from ide, fdisk the drive, then change the mb settings to boot from scsi?

You may want to also double check the jumper settings on the zip and ide drive. I assume you have both drives connected to one ide channel(one cable); one set as master - one set as slave. When I had ide jumpers set incorrectly, the drives appeared when I booted the system, but not in windows - drove me crazy trying to figure it out.

 

[Nothinman]

Depending on which OS you want to install you'll either have to load the DOS driver for the SCSI card to load Win9X or give NT/2K/XP the driver disk during install (when it says hit F6).

 

[Evadman]

Use a floppy to boot, ( like a windows rescue disk ) then FDisk the drive, then go back to your original setup. I had the same problem.

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as in:
First boot device = A:
Second = anything
3rd = anything
</edit>

 

[Jeriko]

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone. Unplugging the SCSI HD and booting from floppy worked like a charm and I've got 60 gigs waiting to be filled. Much appreciated!

-J

 

[Evadman]

Great to hear that. I knew I was here for a reason. ( well, besides being annoying anyway )

 

[Richard98]

Glad to hear you got it working. Nice setup with the x15 for speed and the deskstar for storage. I have a similar setup, but with a much slower 10k scsi drive & a Maxtor 60.