Shadey
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Can't Boot From SCSI CD Drive (Promise RAID & Advansys SCSI)
Any help or information will be appreciated
I have here a ASUS P4PE Motherboard (with GBIT Lan version) and it has on board RAID (Promise PPC 20376 chipset)
Have been trying to run it with a Advansys / Iomega Jazz Jet PCI Ultra Adaptor - which has conected to it a SCSI CD and a SCSI CD-R/RW (There is no IDE CD Drive)
The problem that i have here is trying to get the comp to boot from a bootable CD in the SCSI CD or CDr/RW drive.
On boot the normal scsi information pops up and it detects a bootable CD in the drives and asks whether to boot from the CD or normal (which means HDD).
When Boot from CD is selected - immediately - an error says cant boot from the CD appears - even though the CD is bootable (win2k os setup disk and others).
Have already tried swapping the scsi card to different PCI slots - in case its IRQ conflicts with the RAID device because previously the SCSI was using a PCI slot that shared IRQ with the RAID, but same problem.
Previously - the same SCSI card was used with an older Intel Pentium 200 Mobo, there wasnt a problem there. So I have been wondering whether there might be some conflict between the RAID and SCSI card. Would anyone know if there are such conflicts ?
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Forgot to add that no devices are plugged into RAID controller (yet) and RAID has been turned off in the bios settings. Having the same problem still.
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Thank for reading.
Any help or information will be appreciated
I have here a ASUS P4PE Motherboard (with GBIT Lan version) and it has on board RAID (Promise PPC 20376 chipset)
Have been trying to run it with a Advansys / Iomega Jazz Jet PCI Ultra Adaptor - which has conected to it a SCSI CD and a SCSI CD-R/RW (There is no IDE CD Drive)
The problem that i have here is trying to get the comp to boot from a bootable CD in the SCSI CD or CDr/RW drive.
On boot the normal scsi information pops up and it detects a bootable CD in the drives and asks whether to boot from the CD or normal (which means HDD).
When Boot from CD is selected - immediately - an error says cant boot from the CD appears - even though the CD is bootable (win2k os setup disk and others).
Have already tried swapping the scsi card to different PCI slots - in case its IRQ conflicts with the RAID device because previously the SCSI was using a PCI slot that shared IRQ with the RAID, but same problem.
Previously - the same SCSI card was used with an older Intel Pentium 200 Mobo, there wasnt a problem there. So I have been wondering whether there might be some conflict between the RAID and SCSI card. Would anyone know if there are such conflicts ?
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Forgot to add that no devices are plugged into RAID controller (yet) and RAID has been turned off in the bios settings. Having the same problem still.
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Thank for reading.