Apologies in advance if this is under your level of
expertise. Here are a few things to look at.
IBM has always had a bit limited options in its bios,
but boot order is important. Also, most bioses have a
setting to give priority to either the IDE or SCSI
interface. If not it may that drive 0 Chanel A needs
to be set manually to "not installed". Some SCSI
implementations are quirky with this.. trial and error
discovers it.
Next make sure the drives are jumpered right... my
suggetions.. if possible get it to work on drive 1
Chanel A or drive 0 Chanel B. Slave or Master
respesctively.
If all this checks out and you're running Linux ..
well I have read that Linux bypasses most of the
settings in the Bios and does this in its kernel INIT
code.. not real sure about that, but worth a look.
Check LILO or Grub or whatever your loader is to see
that the Boot dev has not been bumped to another
designation.
Hope this helps.
> > I am trying to install an Maxtor Diamond Max Plus
> Ultra ATA/133 80 GB
> > ide hard drive in my IBM Netfinity 3000. If I set
> it up as a master the
> > bios will recognize it and let me set it up but
> when the system boots it
> > bypasses all the scsi drives and says there is not
> boot drive available.
> > It is trying to boot from the ide drive and not
> from the scsi drive
> > where the boot drive is located.
> >
> > If I use it as a slave, the bios does not see it
> at all and I cannot set
> > it up. And Linux does not see the 'hda' drive
> either from fdisk.
> >
> > OK I give up,,,, I am no A+ guy.
> >
> > Michael C. Rock
> > Systems Analyst
> > Registered Linux User # 287973
> >
> > "The time has come the walrus said to speak of
> many things,,,"
> > "Christians give up what they cannot keep to gain
> what they cannot lose"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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