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booting from floppy SCSI not available
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Name: Jim
Date: April 9, 2002 at 13:52:56 Pacific
Subject: booting from floppy SCSI not available |
Comment: I'm booting to DOS 7.1 from a floppy. I have a SCSI HDD as well as an IDE HDD. The SCSI ASPI drive says that it loads successfully. However, there isn't a drive letter for it. When I boot from the HDD to XP SCSI=C: and IDE=D:. When I boot from the floppy, IDE=C: -- there's no drive letter for the SCSI.
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Response Number 1
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Name: Woof
Date: April 10, 2002 at 10:12:34 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)does your scsi card load its bios or is it a *winscsi* card? if it loads it bios try inserting the floppy after the bios loads set boot sequence to a then scsi and see what happens Woof
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Response Number 2
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Name: fred6008
Date: April 11, 2002 at 21:09:10 Pacific
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Reply: (edit) Do you have a SCSI controller with a bootable bios on it? If not you have to put driver device lines in the config.sys on your floppy for it to boot. Just copy the lines from the boot files on drive C: to the boot files on the floppy.
What seems unusual to me is your SCSI being drive C:. The IDE usually precedes the SCSI.
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Response Number 3
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Name: Woof
Date: April 13, 2002 at 13:08:22 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)It depends on your bios, mine is set to boot scsi then c then floppy and all 3 of my IDE hard drives and my SCSI Hard drive are bootable, as well as my cdrom and zip drive Woof
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