Accessing SCSI CDRW from boot.

[kgb]

Hi,
I s there a way i can boot up to my SCSI. I got 2 Cdrom on my computer. One is an IDE and i got a disket to boot to it. And the other one is a Yamaha Scsi CDRW. How would i create a diskett to boot up to the scsi instead of the IDE using a disket. I tried changing the Boot Sequence from A,C,CDRom to SCSI,A,C but that didnt do it. Any suggestion pls email me at do_g@hotmail.com or post it here.
Thanks
George

[LJE2]

I just read your post over again, with and IDE and a SCSI CD ROM you will not get the message "No CD drive found aborting installation" but the disk should still load the drivers for the SCSI card, so everything else should be the same.

[kgb]

hi, Thanks for your reply.
It's sound good but i'm using Win95 not Win 98. The disket i got right allow me to boot up to my IDE cdrom. I already xcopied that disket all I need to know is how to configure the autoexec.bat or config.sys and what driver to copied to the diskett.

[LJE2]

What SCSI card are you using? When I had Win95 I created one for my Adaptec Card, but I don't recall the exact setup, I'll look for that old floppy.

[LJE2]

The easiest way if you are using Win98 is to create a Startup Disk from the Control Panel's Add/Remove. Windows will create a disk with the SCSI drivers you need. Once this disk is created, start the computer with the disk in the floppy drive, choose "start computer with CD Rom support", it will then load a driver and say no CD drive found aborting installation, it will then load the SCSI drivers, when all the drivers are loaded it will put you at a A prompt. Your CDRW drive will be one drive letter higher than before because Windows loads certain tools to a fictitional drive called RAMDRIVE, if your CDRW was D drive before it will now be E drive, from the A prompt just change to the new drive letter for you CDRW and you are ready to access what's on the disk in your CDRW drive.

[800XL]

What SCSI card are you running here? If it does not have bios on it, you can't boot from your SCSI CD-RW drive. Driver or no driver.

[This message has been edited by 800XL (edited 07-03-99).]

[Mntsnow]

That is correct 800XL!

The card MUST have a BIOS to make it bootable. I personally have the SIIG #AP-10 pci card for my plextor 8x20 burner and quantum 1.2 gig drive (use this setup to do nothing but burning) and it will Boot great!

Let us know what card you have and we can help you make a boot floppy if possable

Mntsnow

[kgb]

Hi,
The type of card is a PCI Adaptec "AHA-2910C" my cdburner is a Yamaha. Again, I need to find out what configuration i need to do on my boot diskett and what driver or what file I should search on my hard drive to copied on my disket. The diskett is already a boot disket that access my IDE cdrom. So most of the files require to boot up is there, its just i'can't reconize files to copied to and how to configure my autoexec.bat and config.sys.

Thanks for all your help.
George

[Mntsnow]

www.adaptec.com/products/datasheets/specs/aha2910b.html (http://www.adaptec.com/products/datasheets/specs/aha2910b.html)

is were the spec's are listed for your PCI scsi card....Unfortunitly for you it DOESNT have a Bios...Thus it is NONBOOTABLE. Sorry!

Mntsnow http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

ps. As I mentioned before I HAVE a BOOTABLE scsi card and it is a SIIG AP-10 and you can get the rest of the spec's here. http://www.siig.com/prodinfo/scsi/fastscsi.htm I got mine thru CompUSA for 59.95 US. but I could have gotten from the http://www.pricewatch.com for about $49 bucks

[This message has been edited by Mntsnow (edited 07-03-99).]

[BBA]

800... I dont think he wants to "boot" from his SCSI CD, I think he wants to boot from a floppy disk and then be able to access the SCSI CD. Win95 will make the disk for you from control panels add/remove programs startup disk tab. To be sure, just disconnect the IDE CD and then boot the PC into windows and then make the disk.

BBA

[800XL]

Those darn semantics. I suspected that he was talking about that, but hours of TA Kingdoms and lack of sleep led me astray. I don't have time right now as I am headed out for the weekend, but come sunday evening perhaps I'll download the drivers, figure out how they work, and post the correct lines to add to autoexec.bat and config.sys to get it working. Its not to extremely difficult. Check out adaptec's website for DOS mode drivers for the card and you may be able to work it out. You will need the aspi driver for the card, and the scsi cdrom driver both in config.sys if I recall correctly.

[kgb]

Yeah . I wanted to boot from a floppy and then access the scsi
...thought it was clear...sorry
I already had copied the driver but now i need to configure the autoexec.bat and config.sys..right?

[LJE2]

I'm sorry I haven't gotten back to you, I have a floppy that I have set up for that exact Adaptec card and Win95, unfortunatly I'm in the middle of a major move (leaving tonight, driving 1500mi, pulling a trailer to start a new job) and everythings packed and I don't recall exactly what I put on it, but if you got some software called EZ-SCSI lite, when you purchased your card, you can make your own. Copy this software to your hard drive, make a bootable disk that contains an Autoexec.bat that is blank and a config.sys that is blank, and install EZ-SCSI lite to the floppy, it should fit, unless Adaptec has made theis program to large in the newer versions, (I did this when I had Win95 and replaced my IDE drive with a SCSI drive and needed a disk to boot to, that recognized my SCSI drive so I could install Win95) I worked about 3 or 4 years ago but I don't know if this program has gotten to big to fit on a floppy.