With my system, I had an IDE hard drive and a CD-R/RW drive in there for a
while while it was running with it's SCSI hard drives and CD-ROM. My
suggestion is that if you put those two drive as the master and slave on
the secondary IDE chain of the Promise card, it should boot from SCSI
instead.
I do use the word should because I don't know about the Promise cards. I
do know that I have had no problems doing this in the past with
motherboards that had onboard IDE, and a 2940UW SCSI card.
Good luck.
> civileme wrote:
> >
> > Sounds well-done. I would be mostly concerned with the CDRW that doesn't
> > want to be an IDE master. There appears to be a problem with the 7.2 kernel
> > with certain CDRW brands and streaing which is exacerbated by slave drives
> > and sharing channel with regular CDs. We intend to fix it soon... something
> > never noticed on our Plextor drives here.
>
> Well, it concerned me, too, especially since it's NOT slaved to anything
> else. It is on a separate channel on the Promise card from the Maxtor
> drive. Am I using the right terminology? I mean that there are two IDE
> connectors on the Promise card (i.e. up to 4 drives). I have two drives on
> it. The Maxtor is connected to one connector and the burner is connected
> to the other.
>
> > > I do have some more SCSI drives on order to populate a second RAID array
> > > and am also likely to eventually replace the current burner with a SCSI
> > > one, but heck, the more disk space the merrier; I'd like to keep the
> > > Maxtor in there if possible just for the extra 30GB.
> > >
> > That should be fine--also your CDRW should work better with the data coming
> > from a different controller.
>
> Perhaps I will move the idea of a SCSI burner higher on my hardware
> purchase priority list. Meanwhile, do we assume that the HDD crash was
> coincidence? I've been a little paranoid about getting back to burning
> even though I moved things around (the data from which the burn is being
> derived will now be on the RAID array instead of the Maxtor). I guess I
> will give it a shot. For now, I must go to C programming class before I am
> late for the first day of this quarter. ;-)
>
> Thanks for the info, civileme!
>
> Holly
>
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