Jim Byrnes wrote:
> Ed Durrant wrote:
>   
>> If possible in your bios, change the boot order to have IDE before SCSI 
>> (or take SCSI out of the boot order).
>>     
> I don't know if I can do that directly, but I can change the boot order 
> on a device basis.  I can have the CD which is ide boot before the the 
> HD which is now sata, maybe that is what you meant.  I just checked and 
> the sequence is now HD --> CD --> Floppy.
>
> Another thing I just realized is when it failed to boot I would 
> immediately see a message saying boot from atapi cdrom and if there was 
> a bootable cd in it it would boot but if not I would see a bootdisk 
> failure message.  Now that it is booting I first see the adaptec scsi 
> screen info and then the sata info like I did before these problems.
>
> I failed to mention what type of machine it is.  I am using an IBM 
> Intellistaion with 2 Xeon processers.  Maybe I am seeing the start of 
> hardware problems?
>
> Thanks,  Jim
>   
Hi Jim,

After you removed the SCSI boot-disk did you go into the Adaptec BIOS 
(CTRL+A) and set it to no boot device, to stop it checking for any?

I leave the IDE CD|DVD drive set permanently as first boot-device- 
doesn't seem to make any significant increase in boot-time, and doesn't 
need any BIOS changes if you need to boot from it.

I wouldn't think you're seeing the start of hardware problems apart from 
that previous (old?) SCSI disk.

I don't have any experience with Intellistations, but do remember that 
on one IBM desktop I used that some of the BIOS options weren't exactly 
intuitive - it wasn't obvious that one had to press enter when the 
cursor was over an item that appeared to be "disabled" [sort of 
greyed-out] in order to bring up the sub-menu - in that case to access 
the IDE controller settings.

Regards,
Mike


 
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