installing scanner SCSI card and Serial ATA boot drive is not foun

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New Computer and I want to use my HP 2cx scanner which works fine with
regular ide drive & XP but in Computer with serial ATA drive the system is
not able to automatically detect the serial ATA hard drive as soon as I
install the Tekram dc-395u/uw SCSI card.

Computer starts, finds the SCSI card goes through SCSI detection screen
finds no bootable drive then stops, asking for bootable CD. It seems the
Serial ATA and SCSI are too similar.

Suggestions, thanks.

Ken
 
You need to enable it thru the BIOS,then if youre installing a single drive,
format and create a primary partition,sometimes the mfg DOS utility will get
it recognized after and/or it formats it.
 
You need to enable it thru the BIOS,then if youre installing a single
drive,
format and create a primary partition,sometimes the mfg DOS utility will get
it recognized after and/or it formats it.
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The Serial ATA boot drive came in a factory configured computer and works
fine until I add my optional Tekram SCSI card which would only be used to run
a scanner. The machine is at the office so I can't check now but I a think it
was set to boot as hd0. (and does when no SCSI card is inserted) I do notice
the back of the SATA Hard Disk has no jumper on it where as a ATA drive
normally is set to master. However I also don't see the usual markings
indicating where master would be. I will try and contact the manufacturer of
computer today if they have weekend support. May also remove drive from
computer to see if any markings are on it for setting to Master.

I guess the simple solution is to install a USB2 scanner but I do like the
current scanner as it handles legal and also has included HP deskscan
software for converting from bitmap to vector really well and also works
under Vuescan software for profiling with it8 calibration target.

Ken
 
Ken said:
The Serial ATA boot drive came in a factory configured computer and works
fine until I add my optional Tekram SCSI card which would only be used to
run
a scanner. The machine is at the office so I can't check now but I a think
it
was set to boot as hd0. (and does when no SCSI card is inserted) I do
notice
the back of the SATA Hard Disk has no jumper on it where as a ATA drive
normally is set to master. However I also don't see the usual markings
indicating where master would be. I will try and contact the manufacturer
of
computer today if they have weekend support. May also remove drive from
computer to see if any markings are on it for setting to Master.

I guess the simple solution is to install a USB2 scanner but I do like the
current scanner as it handles legal and also has included HP deskscan
software for converting from bitmap to vector really well and also works
under Vuescan software for profiling with it8 calibration target.

Ken
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SATA doesn't have master and slave, so don't bother looking. You can only
have one per cable, so there's no need for master/slave configurations.

It may be that your SCSI card has its own bios that needs to be set. Mine
has settings that will allow it to be used to boot or not. To change it, on
mine at least, there's a message at startup that says press <somekey> for
SCSI configuration. Offhand I don't remember what key it is, but yours is
probably different.

Also, make sure your bios is set correctly.
 
You may have the IRQs in conflict. Both the SATA and SCSI adapter should
have their own IRQs.
 
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