Boot drive not found XP Pro 64

In his posting of Sun, 20 Dec 2009, Richard writes
>Guys...the system is now booting from the SCSI boot drive with both
>SATA drives connected. I have not put on the other SCSI drives but
>that should not be any problem. Just wanted to thank you all
>especially Dominic before taking up anyone's time further.
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Well all is still well except that neither of the two SATA drives are
seen in disk management and re-scanning disks does not help. Not seen in
windows explorer either.

Oh well, at least the SATA drives do not stop the system booting<G>

Cheers

Richard
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Richard Kenward

Check your BIOS settings for the SATA drives

"Richard" <> wrote in message
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> In his posting of Sun, 20 Dec 2009, Richard writes
>>Guys...the system is now booting from the SCSI boot drive with both SATA
>>drives connected. I have not put on the other SCSI drives but that
>>should not be any problem. Just wanted to thank you all especially
>>Dominic before taking up anyone's time further.
> Snip
>
> Well all is still well except that neither of the two SATA drives are seen
> in disk management and re-scanning disks does not help. Not seen in
> windows explorer either.
>
> Oh well, at least the SATA drives do not stop the system booting<G>
>
> Cheers
>
> Richard
> --
> Richard Kenward
>
>

In his posting of Sun, 20 Dec 2009, John Barnes writes
>Check your BIOS settings for the SATA drives
>

John thanks but I may be being very dull but all I see are my four SCSI
drives and two entries as follows:

PCI BEV: NVIDIA Boot Agent 229.052
PCI BEV: 2-NVIDIA Boot Agent229.0


also CD drive
and Legacy network card


There are no SATA drives to be seen...by me at any rate<G> Where should
they be seen?

Cheers

Richard

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In his posting of Sun, 20 Dec 2009, R. C. White writes
>Hi, Richard.
>
>> the SATA drives the computer fails to find the SCSI boot drive (C)
>
>Then make SATA the boot drive.
>
>Since your BIOS insists on looking to your SATA drive, just insert your
>WinXP CD into the optical drive, reboot, and run the Repair program
>while the SATA drive is the boot device. WinXP Setup will "correct"
>the boot sector and put its startup files on the System Partition,
>which will be the Active partition on your SATA drive. Then you can
>edit Boot.ini on THAT partition to point to the \Windows folder on your
>SCSI HDD. Note that Boot.ini doesn't use "drive" letters; it just
>points to the "rdisk(#)partition(#)\Windows" folder, which is your
>WinXP's "boot folder". (See KB 314470 for the counterintuitive
>definitions of System Volume and Boot Volume:
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314470/EN-US/ )
>
>The BIOS I was using when I added my first IDE HDD to my all-SCSI
>system would not allow me to boot from SCSI if any IDE drive was
>connected, so I had to do this. At startup, the computer would look to
>my IDE drive just long enough to read the boot sector and the startup
>files (NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM and Boot.ini). Those files told the system
>to look to the \Windows folder on the first SCSI HDD, which held
>WinXP's operating system files.
>
>If you can't get your BIOS to look on the SCSI HDD for NTLDR, then put
>NTLDR on the SATA HDD. ;^}
>
>But it cost me a lot of time and frustration, so I understand what you
>are going through!
>
>RC

Thanks for that. It's tough when things go wrong and you feel ill
equipped to deal well with them. There simply cannot be too much to get
this sorted now as I can at least boot up from the SCSI drive with the
SATA drives connected but cannot see them yet.

Cheers

Richard
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I think a BIOS update ia required to resolve the problem because the
1.05 BIOS release notes mention resolving a problem with enumerating
SATA drives. This is the root of your problem, and may also allow the
display of the SCSISelect configuration prompt. There are links on this
page http://www.tyan.com/support_download...?model=S.S2895
explaining how to flash your BIOS.

Now you have re-enabled the nVidia RAID the SATA drives are seen as an
unconfigured RAID array. This is not useful unless you are going to
reconfigure them as a RAID array.

I am afraid Nottingham is not just down the road from South Wales.


On 20/12/2009 22:12, Richard wrote:
> In his posting of Sun, 20 Dec 2009, Dominic Payer writes
>> I think you should update to at least BIOS 1.05. The latest would be
>> best as there are often undocumented fixes in BIOS updates.
>>
>
> Thanks again Dominic
>
> The idea of embarking on updating the BIOS is a little daunting...not
> sure at the moment where to start!
>
>> Pages 43 & 44 of the motherboard manual I downloaded explain the
>> Option ROM setting. If it is not enabled I think the card will not be
>> scanned to check if it can boot.
>
> Many thanks for going to that trouble. I've checked and all the slots
> are enabled already.
>
>>
>> Your second post in this thread listed a 39320A PCI SCSI excluded from
>> boot.
>
> Ah I see<G>
>
> On page 40 there is an option for NV RAID Configuration Set Nvidia RAID
> control. I've checked in the BIOS and this is set to Disabled, is this
> correct do you think?
>
>>
>> There is an x64 XP driver for the onboard LSI53C1030 SCSI controller
>> at
>> http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/prod...duct_ics/scsi_
>> ics/lsi53c1030/index.html which might be worth a try.
>
> Is that worth doing because apart from not being able to gain access to
> the card's BIOS the Adaptec card had been reliable though it would be
> nice to make sure that it is set correctly. Very strange that it has
> never been visible at boot time. I always wondered why then thought that
> the modern cards are designed to not require user intervention!
>
> Again many, many thanks for all of your help. If you were just down the
> road I would be offering you the job of sorting this out for me but I
> imagine you are miles from south Wales!
>
> Cheers
>
> Richard
>
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>

In his posting of Mon, 21 Dec 2009, Dominic Payer writes
>I think a BIOS update ia required to resolve the problem because the
>1.05 BIOS release notes mention resolving a problem with enumerating
>SATA drives. This is the root of your problem, and may also allow the
>display of the SCSISelect configuration prompt. There are links on this
>page http://www.tyan.com/support_download...?model=S.S2895
>explaining how to flash your BIOS.

Many thanks Dominic I will have to be brave!

>
>Now you have re-enabled the nVidia RAID the SATA drives are seen as an
>unconfigured RAID array. This is not useful unless you are going to
>reconfigure them as a RAID array.

OK I have now disabled the RAID.

>
>I am afraid Nottingham is not just down the road from South Wales.

That is a shame...only a thought!

Cheers

Richard

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