PCI IDE Card

[Joshua R. Altemoos]

Hello,

I do have to apologize for this long topic. I thank you all for your help. I
checked teh BIOS and found No SCSI options but this also could mean since it is
a Compaq 3 bios and i haev seen in the past with it that it would not make a
diffenrce because if irt did support it it would not show untill i had the card
attached. But to end this i have some news reguarding this. In my
toblueshooting efforts before i came and asked here i attached new hardrives
used new cables check the jumpers etc etc etc i also tried a old cdron drive and
none of them worked. When i tried again when i looked in the bios etc i started
to mess around again and i found out that when i hooked a cdron drive up it DID
work. Then i hooked my 40 gig hd up and it did not then i repalced the 40 gig
with my 6 gig and the 6 gig worked. So all this time i have had no comptuer was
becuase of the harddrive so i have my pc working and running on the 6 gig.
Thanks for your help. 

-- 
Have A Good Day
Joshua R. Altemoos
joshua at gnu-linux.net


Quoting Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>:

> So have I. I mentioned the fact that he should check the boot sequence 
> to eliminate the possibility of boot failure. I have in the past had 
> systems hang when they can't find a boot record from where the BIOS has 
> told it to look.
> 
> Dave Andruczyk wrote:
> 
> >Even on old systems that don't have an "alternate" boot choice, by inserting
> a
> >card with a bootable bios the system should be able to boot off of it. 
> BIOS's
> >like this include SCSI and PCI IDE cards, they typically use the INT13
> >extension to do so...  So even on systems that do NOT have the choice to
> boot
> >from SCSI/"other", inserting a card with a bootable bios should allow the
> >system to boot from devices plugged into that new controller..  (I have done
> it
> >many times in the past, on systems as old as 486/33's)
> >
> >
> >--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>That is exactly the card I had in mind and that is what I was trying to 
> >>say all along. He would still need to change the boot sequence in his 
> >>mobo and check scsi in the sequence or at least the option to look 
> >>elsewhere if only say floppy/cdrom/ide0 are selected now.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >=====
> >Dave J. Andruczyk
> >
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