boot diskette to recognize SCSI and IDE hard disks?

[jose flanigan]

I'm trying to create a bootable floppy that will recognize my SCSI and
my IDE hard drive. I can create a bootable floppy, but it does not
recognize the SCSI or the IDE hard drive (or their logical drives)
upon booting successfully.

Any help appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

 

[MooGooGaiPan]

You've created a bootable floppy that boots with WHAT
operating system ? A Win98 (nor ME I think) boot disk
will not recognize a hard drive that is formatted with the
NTFS file system (without a utility). Typically a SCSI
hard drive will not be recognized without special drivers
or unless the SCSI host adapter has a BIOS. What are you
trying to accomplish ? For example, if you're trying to
make an image or your C drive, some programs like GHOST
will work with an NTFS partition, even when booted from a
Win98 boot disk. Please provide more information . . .
and Good Luck !

 

[Alex Nichol]

I'm trying to create a bootable floppy that will recognize my SCSI and
my IDE hard drive. I can create a bootable floppy, but it does not
recognize the SCSI or the IDE hard drive (or their logical drives)
upon booting successfully.

A Win98 startup floppy, made on any machine not running XP, by running
the program tools\mtsutil\fat32ebd\fat32ebd.exe on the Win98 CD
includes drivers for most SCSI cards.

But any such floppy, which is booting DOS, will be unable to do anything
with drives formatted in NTFS - which is almost certainly why you cannot
see the IDE drives, and probably applies to your SCSI ones too

 

[Plato]

A Win98 startup floppy, made on any machine not running XP, by running
the program tools\mtsutil\fat32ebd\fat32ebd.exe on the Win98 CD
includes drivers for most SCSI cards.

But any such floppy, which is booting DOS, will be unable to do anything
with drives formatted in NTFS - which is almost certainly why you cannot
see the IDE drives, and probably applies to your SCSI ones too

As an aside, an OEM MS win98 bootdisk will see SCSI drives by default if
they are not in NTFS, as you know.