Mike O'Connor wrote:
> 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?

No I didn't.  Something else to check out.

> 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.

That's the way I had it before and I have it that way now and at least 
for the time being it seems to be working.

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

What concerns me is the fact that I am seeing seeing different things 
happening and things working and not working without me making any 
changes. All seems to be working now as I just finished install ecs on 
the D: paratition.  Now to install the tape backup program.  This 
experience has thaught me that even though I have a good back up plan in 
place I really need to make the effort to figure out the bootable 
program to avoid all the reinstalling.

> 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.

I think I have figured out how to access all the settings, it is knowing 
what to set them that usually gives me trouble.

Thanks,  Jim

> Regards,
> Mike
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