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I've just had one of those D'Oh! moments.
I'm putting together a couple of PCs at the moment, utilising a bundle of high-speed SCSI stuff a mate of mine donated to me that I feel kind of obliged to use
So there I am with a well used K6III/475 machine running a 20gb Quantum IDE and SCSI CDrw and CDRom drives hung off an Adaptec 2940au. To this rig I add a Matrox G200, Compaq and 3Com 10/100 Nics, Sb16 PCI, a removable IDE drive bay, an external DEC 15/30gb tape drive plus a 9.1gb Seagate Barracuda.
All in all, a pretty full up box.
So, I stick my Windows 2000cd in the drive, tell the 2940 what CD to boot from, and give it a go.
The system can recognise a bootable CDs in the drive, but cant actually boot from it. Not being bothered to sort this glitch out, I stick in a floppy to get things moving.
The machine boots, looks at the SCSI card and hangs.
An hour or two later I've figured out which way to do the termination and got everything going.
Try again, boots, detects SCSI okay, detects the bootstrap and hangs with 'LI' displayed on the screen.
Several hours, many coffees, a few clumps of hair and some well chosen swearwords later I've pulled every card from the box apart from the SCSI and the G200, changed the ram, fiddled with the bios and still get the same thing.
Then it dawns on me
The Barracuda came from a Windows XP system running software RAID0. This drive was part of a dynamic volume striped over several disks.
And in order to try and boot from my 2000 CD I'd set the boot order in Bios to "SCSI, A, C"
D'Oh!
I'm putting together a couple of PCs at the moment, utilising a bundle of high-speed SCSI stuff a mate of mine donated to me that I feel kind of obliged to use
So there I am with a well used K6III/475 machine running a 20gb Quantum IDE and SCSI CDrw and CDRom drives hung off an Adaptec 2940au. To this rig I add a Matrox G200, Compaq and 3Com 10/100 Nics, Sb16 PCI, a removable IDE drive bay, an external DEC 15/30gb tape drive plus a 9.1gb Seagate Barracuda.
All in all, a pretty full up box.
So, I stick my Windows 2000cd in the drive, tell the 2940 what CD to boot from, and give it a go.
The system can recognise a bootable CDs in the drive, but cant actually boot from it. Not being bothered to sort this glitch out, I stick in a floppy to get things moving.
The machine boots, looks at the SCSI card and hangs.
An hour or two later I've figured out which way to do the termination and got everything going.
Try again, boots, detects SCSI okay, detects the bootstrap and hangs with 'LI' displayed on the screen.
Several hours, many coffees, a few clumps of hair and some well chosen swearwords later I've pulled every card from the box apart from the SCSI and the G200, changed the ram, fiddled with the bios and still get the same thing.
Then it dawns on me
The Barracuda came from a Windows XP system running software RAID0. This drive was part of a dynamic volume striped over several disks.
And in order to try and boot from my 2000 CD I'd set the boot order in Bios to "SCSI, A, C"
D'Oh!
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