Steven Levine wrote:
> In , on 11/22/07
>    at 09:51 AM, Jim Byrnes  said:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> I remember when I added the SATA to the SCSI system I had to add I 
>> beleive it was !BIOS to danis506.
> 
> That bypasses the possible creation of a DOS VDM during boot time.  Some
> modern systems don't handle this well.
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> This make it appear to be a possilble cable/connector issue.
> 
> Steven
> 

That's a good possibility, I'll have to remember to pick up a spare SAT
cable.  When I was working with it I did unplug and reattach the SATA
cable at both ends.

Interesting how things work out.  I was using XP to type this but it 
would not connect with my ISP all of a sudden so it did not get sent. 
In the meantime I got my ecs machine running and restored everything 
from tape.  I used it yesterday but this afternoon when I turned it on I 
got the boot disk failure msg again.

Then I remembered that I actually had another sata card, so I got the 
cable from it and used it but same failure.  Then I swapped the other 
card itself in and was able to boot.  So was that the problem or was it 
just an anomaly that I was able to boot.  I guess time will tell.





Regards,  Jim


 
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