SATA Boot plus a SCSI Drive

[Glenn Robison]

Greetings

Recently in order to gain storage space, I installed a Maxtor 200 GB
SATA drive. I had been using a Seagate 73 GB SCSI. I managed to get
the Seagate cloned onto the Maxtor, and the computer boots to the
Maxtor and works just fine.

I would like to use the Seagate as a scratch disk and to store some
files, however. I formatted the Seagate, but when I connect it to the
Adaptec SCSI card, the computer will not boot to the Maxtor.

Is it possible to have this combination of drives? Does anyone know
what I must do in order to boot to the SATA disk while the SCSI disk
is connected?

Thanks for any assistance you can render.

Glenn

 

[David H. Lipman]

You'll have to go into the BIOS of the platform and set the boot order such the SATA is
primary and the SCSI is secondary.

Some things to do:
Move the IE cache (or any other Browser's cache) to the "D:" drive.
Set the Virtual Memory to the "D:" drive.
Create a d:\temp directory and point the Environmentakl variables %TEMP% and %TMP% variables
to point to d:\temp

The above will help speed up many operations and make your PC appear quicker.

Dave



| Greetings
|
| Recently in order to gain storage space, I installed a Maxtor 200 GB
| SATA drive. I had been using a Seagate 73 GB SCSI. I managed to get
| the Seagate cloned onto the Maxtor, and the computer boots to the
| Maxtor and works just fine.
|
| I would like to use the Seagate as a scratch disk and to store some
| files, however. I formatted the Seagate, but when I connect it to the
| Adaptec SCSI card, the computer will not boot to the Maxtor.
|
| Is it possible to have this combination of drives? Does anyone know
| what I must do in order to boot to the SATA disk while the SCSI disk
| is connected?
|
| Thanks for any assistance you can render.
|
| Glenn

 

[Marty L. Williams]

You'll need to turn off the boot capability of your SCSI board. Probably
in the BIOS for the SCSI board. This is what I had to do.

Ta...
Marty L. Williams

 

[Glenn Robison]

Thanks for your reply, David

I failed to mention that I have an A7N8X-D Rev. 2.0 board. It is set
to boot to SCSI (as it must in order to boot to the SATA drive).
There is no option that I can see to boot to SATA. How then can I set
up SATA as primary and SCSI as secondary?

Currently, the Adaptec SCSI card (19160) BIOS runs before the Silicon
Image SATA BIOS. Can this order be changed? If so, would it solve
the problem?

Again, right now I have ONLY the SATA disk connected, and everything
works just fine. If I connect the Seagate SCSI drive (which has no OS
on it),with the Maxtor SATA connected, then the computer will not
boot at all.

Thanks again for your help.

Glenn

 

[rotorhead]

Hi there Guys

After reading your answers, I would like to pose one myself to you, is it
possible to BOOT to the SATA in favour of the IDE drives, so that the SATA
is ALWAYS 'C', I've tried all sorts of combinations to no avail.

rotorhead

 

[Glenn Robison]

Thanks, Larry

I searched the Adaptec site and found where to turn off the SCSI BIOS
on the 19160 card. The computer booted up fine, and I was able to
initialize and format the Seagate 73 GB SCSI drive in Windows XP. I'm
now using it as the Photoshop scratch disk and the temp disk for Cool
Edit Pro.

Thanks to all who responded.

Best wishes for a safe, healthy, happy and extraordinarily prosperous
New Year.