Intalling a IDE drive in a SCSI Server

[Greg]

I've been trying to install this 120 gig IDE drive in our server. It is
running Windows 2003 Standard server. It has an 18 gig SCSI drive in it
right now. Also had two IDE controllers on the board. The CD Rom is on the
2nd Master. I put the IDE drive on 1st Slave. It won't boot up. Says invalid
OS. So I yanked it out and dropped it in a Win2k system. Booted up fine. Ran
the Matrox program. It saw the drive and partition/formatted it as a
non-boot drive. Took it out of the Win2k system and put it back in the
server. Still nothing. Gives me the invalid OS message again. I've set the
jumper for to be a slave drive. Used the middle connection in the ribbon
cable. Disconnected the CD Rom just for the heck of it. What the heck am I
missing? The bios sees the drive when I go into the setup features.

 

[kony]

I've been trying to install this 120 gig IDE drive in our server. It is
running Windows 2003 Standard server. It has an 18 gig SCSI drive in it
right now. Also had two IDE controllers on the board. The CD Rom is on the
2nd Master. I put the IDE drive on 1st Slave. It won't boot up. Says invalid
OS. So I yanked it out and dropped it in a Win2k system. Booted up fine. Ran
the Matrox program. It saw the drive and partition/formatted it as a
non-boot drive. Took it out of the Win2k system and put it back in the
server. Still nothing. Gives me the invalid OS message again. I've set the
jumper for to be a slave drive. Used the middle connection in the ribbon
cable. Disconnected the CD Rom just for the heck of it. What the heck am I
missing? The bios sees the drive when I go into the setup features.

Did you set the bios to boot from it?
Did you consider making it the primary master?

 

[mhaase-at-springmind.com]

I've been trying to install this 120 gig IDE drive in our server. It is
running Windows 2003 Standard server. It has an 18 gig SCSI drive in it
right now. Also had two IDE controllers on the board. The CD Rom is on the
2nd Master. I put the IDE drive on 1st Slave. It won't boot up. Says invalid
OS. So I yanked it out and dropped it in a Win2k system. Booted up fine. Ran
the Matrox program. It saw the drive and partition/formatted it as a
non-boot drive. Took it out of the Win2k system and put it back in the
server. Still nothing. Gives me the invalid OS message again. I've set the
jumper for to be a slave drive. Used the middle connection in the ribbon
cable. Disconnected the CD Rom just for the heck of it. What the heck am I
missing? The bios sees the drive when I go into the setup features.

Unless I'm mistaken, if you add an IDE drive to a SCSI system, it will
always (by default) try to boot from that drive first. Check the BIOS
for a way around this.

 

[Trent©]

Yer usin' too many pronouns. Try usin' a noun in place of 'it'.

I've been trying to install this 120 gig IDE drive in our server. It is
running Windows 2003 Standard server.

The 120 gig drive is running w2k3 server?

It has an 18 gig SCSI drive in it
right now.

Okay...the computer has a SCSI drive in it. On what controller?...as
the master or slave? Is it the boot drive?...in the BIOS?

Also had two IDE controllers on the board.

So the machine is booting from a SCSI add-on card? Giving us the
drive manufacturers wouldn't hurt either.

The CD Rom is on the
2nd Master. I put the IDE drive on 1st Slave. It won't boot up.

WHAT won't boot up?...the computer?...or that drive? Is the BIOS
still set up to boot from the SCSI?

Says invalid
OS. So I yanked it out and dropped it in a Win2k system. Booted up fine.

Without changing any jumpers? And how did you connect it into that
w2k system...controller, jumper, etc...and how was the BIOS set?

Ran
the Matrox program. It saw the drive and partition/formatted it as a
non-boot drive. Took it out of the Win2k system and put it back in the
server. Still nothing. Gives me the invalid OS message again. I've set the
jumper for to be a slave drive.

Do you have other IDE drives on the same controller with that drive?
And is it the master on the primary controller?

Used the middle connection in the ribbon
cable.

Position makes no difference, of course.

Disconnected the CD Rom just for the heck of it. What the heck am I
missing? The bios sees the drive when I go into the setup features.

I lost track of what yer tryin' to DO with it! lol

Are you tryin' to boot from SCSI?...or from IDE? And what drive are
you tryin' to boot from?

Try writing to us again. This time, refrain from using pronouns
except when really necessary.

And start by tellin' us what yer TRYIN' to do.


Have a nice week...

Trent

Follow Joan Rivers' example --- get pre-embalmed!

 

[Greg]

Thanks. That was it. I should have known it was something simple.