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from: Jim Byrnes
date: 2007-11-22 10:51:40
subject: Re: [OS2HW] Booting from a SATA drive

Steven Levine wrote:
> In , on 11/21/07
>    at 10:29 PM, Jim Byrnes  said:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> I was able to install ecs on D: and then reboot and install Backagian/2 
>> on E:.  When I ran BA/2 I got a message that there was no tape drive 
>> present.  I opened the case and saw that I must have bumped the scsi 
>> cable as it was not attached to the tape drive.  I shutdown and plugged 
>> the tape drive back in but when I tried to reboot I got a message that 
>> there was no boot drive.
> 
> This could be a drive enumeration issue.  Since you want to boot from the
> SATA drive, make sure danis506 preceeds the SCSI .add driver.

I remember when I added the SATA to the SCSI system I had to add I 
beleive it was !BIOS to danis506.

> You might need to configure the SCSI card to not load the SCSI BIOS.

I never thought of that.

> Finally check the MB BIOS settings.  They all seem have a different set of
> options to select alternate boot devices.

See my reply to Ed.  Today with no changes it seems to be working OK 
which probably means I have more problems lurking somewhere.

Regards,  Jim



 
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