On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Alan Mead wrote:
> I have an old Dell with an adaptec SCSI controller, an old 4GB Seagate
> drive, and a Seagate STT28000NS tape drive. I need more space for the
> backup process so I bought a cheap EIDE drive. Well, even cheap drives
> these days are huge; I got a 13.6 GB Western Digital.
>
> When I install the drive the BIOS does not recognize it. If I make the
> BIOS recognize it, it gets recognized as hdc and the system won't boot
> (presumably the BIOS insists on booting the IDE). There is no bios setting
> for "boot from SCSI first".
>
> So, two questions:
>
> Anyone know that I can or cannot boot the SCSI? It wouldn't be the end of
> the world to install Linux on the IDE and boot it...
>
> However, I cannot get the WD to be recognized for all 13.6 GB. I tried
> many bios and jumper settings and all I ever get is 8.4 GB. I guess I need
> to get the BIOS to recognize all 13.6 in order to fdisk it, right? Any ideas?
>
Does your SCSI adapter have a BIOS on it? If not, you cannot boot off
SCSI. Go into your SCSI bios and enable the booting off SCSI there.
John
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