Boot from SATA (Varation!)

Hi all,

Just about to buy a new SATA drive...I know you must setup the BIOS to boot
from the SCSI device in order to boot from an SATA drive, but what if you
already have a SCSI card in your PC?

I have an Adaptec 19160 and attached tape drive only....what happens when
you setup to boot from SCSI - will attempt to boot from this adapter, or is
there some kind of adapter priority you can setup?

Thanks for answering!

Lee

Kidda wrote:
Hi all,

Just about to buy a new SATA drive...I know you must setup the BIOS to
boot from the SCSI device in order to boot from an SATA drive, but what
if you already have a SCSI card in your PC?

I have an Adaptec 19160 and attached tape drive only....what happens when
you setup to boot from SCSI - will attempt to boot from this adapter, or
is there some kind of adapter priority you can setup?

What motherboard do you have?

I would suggest that "boot other devices" might be your best guess for now,
but none of your SCSI disks can be bootable for that to work... in fact, no
other devices that _can_ boot, should have bootable media in them when you
attempt to boot. Removing active partitions _should_ sort out your hard
disks... but thats mere theory. :-p

Ben
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Hi,

The motherboard is an Asus CUSL2-C.

Lee

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Kidda wrote:
Hi all,

Just about to buy a new SATA drive...I know you must setup the BIOS to
boot from the SCSI device in order to boot from an SATA drive, but what
if you already have a SCSI card in your PC?

I have an Adaptec 19160 and attached tape drive only....what happens
when
you setup to boot from SCSI - will attempt to boot from this adapter, or
is there some kind of adapter priority you can setup?

What motherboard do you have?

I would suggest that "boot other devices" might be your best guess for
now,
but none of your SCSI disks can be bootable for that to work... in fact,
no
other devices that _can_ boot, should have bootable media in them when you
attempt to boot. Removing active partitions _should_ sort out your hard
disks... but thats mere theory. :-p

Ben
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A7N8X FAQ: www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html
Questions by email will likely be ignored, please use the newsgroups.
I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String...