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Re: hard disk driver sequence in CONFIG.SYS

Re: hard disk driver sequence in CONFIG.SYS
Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:18:40 -060
Alan Beagley wrote:
> Temporarily, I have an SATA drive with bootable partitions in my 
> previously all-SCSI machine. I have made sure that there are no 
> duplicated drive letters.
> 
> In the mobo BIOS I have the SATA drive set as first in the boot 
> sequence, and Boot Manager is installed to that drive. BUT if I put the 
> DANIS506.ADD driver before the SCSI driver in CONFIG.SYS, the machine 
> gets only as far as the boot logo screen, the drive light for the SATA 
> drive is lit permanently, and there it stops.
> 
> If I put the DANIS506.ADD driver after the SCSI driver in CONFIG.SYS, 
> the machine boots OK, but I can't make any changes connected with Boot 
> Manager (e.g., add or remove drives) because LVM(GUI) now counts the 
> SATA drive as #4 (after the three SCSI drives) -- and BM must be 
> installed on Drive #1 or #2.
> 
> Is there any way I can have BM on the SATA drive and have LVM(GUI) 
> recognize that it's there -- IOW, recognize that the SATA drive is #1?
> 
> A working compromise is to install BM on the first or second SCSI drive, 
> but why do I have to do that? And why won't it boot with the different 
> driver sequence in CONFIG.SYS?
> 
> -=-
> Alan

Alan,

When I added SATA to a SCSI system I had to add /!BIOS to the 
DANIS506.ADD  statement to get it to work.  I continued to boot from the 
SCSI drive so I don't if this will be of an help to you.

As to the order I have Danis506.add before oscscsi.dmd but my system has 
changed to the point where SATA is the only HD and the only SCSI is a 
tape drive.

Regards,  Jim

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hard disk driver sequence in CONFIG.SYS
Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:47:49 -050
Temporarily, I have an SATA drive with bootable partitions in my 
previously all-SCSI machine. I have made sure that there are no 
duplicated drive letters.

In the mobo BIOS I have the SATA drive set as first in the boot 
sequence, and Boot Manager is installed to that drive. BUT if I put the 
DANIS506.ADD driver before the SCSI driver in CONFIG.SYS, the machine 
gets only as far as the boot logo screen, the drive light for the SATA 
drive is lit permanently, and there it stops.

If I put the DANIS506.ADD driver after the SCSI driver in CONFIG.SYS, 
the machine boots OK, but I can't make any changes connected with Boot 
Manager (e.g., add or remove drives) because LVM(GUI) now counts the 
SATA drive as #4 (after the three SCSI drives) -- and BM must be 
installed on Drive #1 or #2.

Is there any way I can have BM on the SATA drive and have LVM(GUI) 
recognize that it's there -- IOW, recognize that the SATA drive is #1?

A working compromise is to install BM on the first or second SCSI drive, 
but why do I have to do that? And why won't it boot with the different 
driver sequence in CONFIG.SYS?

-=-
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