Hi
I have a windows nt server with a scsi 9gb hard disk from which the os is booted. I added a 20Gb ide disk. Now when ever i restart the machine the drive letters do not appear and will have to go to disk administrator and manually give the drive letters for partions.. At the boot up blue screen an error is seen :"canot detrmine filsystem type for drive i:??"
is thsi 'cuz the atapi drivers are not starting up. please help..

Sounds like you do not have the jumpers set up correctly. Also check your SCSI configuration. You may need to log onto the web site of the Hard Drives, and research the configuration specs for the drives. You will need the model # from each drive. That will tell you how to set them up.

Well to start, make sure in the bios the boot order is set to scsi then ide not the reverse. Sounds like the ide drive is configured correctly [standalone or master never cable select] or you wouldn't get the message you are. Make sure in control panel scsi devices that atapi.sys is loaded to support ide devices. Then go into disk admin and partition/format/assign a drive letter. From the message I take it the drive has been partitioned but not formatted. You should make the entire ide drive one primary partition.