I have four hardrives that I want to connect to my small server computer. it always had one hardrive so I suppose setting are only for that. having the four new hardrive formated from scsi card tools. I then install windows xp but only one hardrive shows. is there a way to I can make all harddrive show as different drives for this one computer. I suppose it supports lots of hardrives since ita ASUS a7m266-d. so I think it does. I have four hard drives and want to put them. I went to BOOT DEVICE CONFIGURATION after pressing ctrl A. THEN IT SHOWS BOOT SCSI ID WHERE I TYPE IN 4. FOR FOUR HARDRIVE. CAN ANYONE TELL ME IF THAT WORKS BECAUSE ONLY TWO HARD DRIVE SHOWS AS READ AT THE BEGINNING OF BOOT BUT ONLY THE ONE WITH WINDOWS XP IS ON THERE. HOW DO I MULTI PUT ALL HARD DRIVES TO BE READ FROM XP BECAUSE i WILL USE VIRTUAL MACHINE TO INSTALL ALL HARD DRIVES IN SEPERATE OPERATING SYSTEMS. BUT MAKING SURE THEY ARE READ FIRST FROM BOOT

It's been a while since I used SCSI devices, but if memory serves, SCSI drives must be properly terminated for them to work right. If you've got a plug in card, then the host adapter is typically terminated, and so is the last drive in the chain unless you're using the external connector as well. In that case, the host adapter isn't terminated and the two drives at each cable end are. The ID is assigned by the host adapter from jumper settings on the drives. Your boot drive should be 0, 1, or 2 for it to boot. Since you've got four drives, set them to 0, 1, 2, and 3. If you're not getting all four drives to show up in the host configuration, then you may have duplicate jumper settings, a bad cable, or improperly terminated devices. Check that first, and then try the Operating system installs. Weird things can happen if you partition the drives too; for example, if partition C into "D" and "E", you may find that "D" and "E" are actually drive 2 and 3 respectively with "F" being drive 4 and "G" and "H" being partitions of "C". HTH

The highest priority is usually ID 7 and is taken by the SCSI card. Then 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, and 8. So you'll want your booting drive to be the next highest. It doesn't necessarily have to be ID 6--just the highest priority of the 4 drives. They could for example be jumpered 5,3,2,1,0 with 5 being the boot drive. All the drives should show in the SCSI card's setup utility, if properly jumpered and connected. For XP to see them as lettered drives they'll need to be partitioned.

thank you for your reply i am just beginning to learn some of these drives. i found just a basic page thats this one http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/suppo... although im not able to find where the jumpers go.

I know that 3 is the number i'll use and 4 if im using 5 hardrives. I really hope someone can help me too with where the jumpers go. like what is reserve and das0 das1 etc.

anybody

this is what i guess after reading some forum das0 is from 0 to 1 pin is for 1 hardrive das1 is from 2 to 3 pin is for 2 hardrive das2 is from 4 to 5 pin is for 3 hardrive das3 is from 6 to 7 and term.power.on is 11 and 12 is this right for four hard drives let me know thanks