Added ide to existing SCSI system

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I have a dell pe1300 server that came with a SCSI raid system. I tryed
adding an ide PCI card so that I could add cheap drives to increase storage.
Now I think the computer is trying to boot off the ide drive instead of the
SCSI drive. I am getting an error like, "No boot device found." Does anyone
know if there is a way to stop this from happening? I just want to use the
ide as a extra drive.

Thanks


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Bob said:
I have a dell pe1300 server that came with a SCSI raid system. I tryed
adding an ide PCI card so that I could add cheap drives to increase
storage. Now I think the computer is trying to boot off the ide drive
instead of the SCSI drive. I am getting an error like, "No boot device
found." Does anyone know if there is a way to stop this from happening? I
just want to use the ide as a extra drive.
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In the BIOS there should be a sequence of boot devices. Make sure the IDE
card (which will most probably be recognised as a SCSI Device) is after the
onboard SCSI controller, or take it out of the boot sequence altogether.

Or put the optical drives on the controller card and put the HDD on the
onboard IDE controller. But the onboard is probably only ATA33 or ATA66.

I'm going by these specs:
http://cil.pt/docDell/PE1300/ug/technica.htm

ss.
 
The IDE PCI card emulates SCSI, i.e. it appears to the BIOS as a SCSI adapter. If the BIOS has the option to select one of multiple SCSI adapters you can select the one that you want to boot from, otherwise it will boot from the first one that it finds. If you can disable the BIOS on the IDE card (not likely) it will boot from the other card. You might have to swap the SCSI adapter and the IDE card between slots so that the SCSI card is found first.
 
I found in the BIOS an option that said something like, "Boot priority" and
it showed the first scsi drive and the first ide drive. I was able to move
the scsi drive up and it worked!! That's one good thing about dell's they
are the best when it comes to features and compatibility.

Thanks for the help.
 
I found in the BIOS an option that said something like, "Boot priority" and
it showed the first scsi drive and the first ide drive. I was able to move
the scsi drive up and it worked!! That's one good thing about dell's they
are the best when it comes to features and compatibility.
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LOL

Dells are among the worst when it comes to features,
particularly bios options.
 
Dells have almost no performance options in the BIOS, but I used to have a Dell Pentium 2 and there was an option in the system BIOS to allow me to boot from any disk on two SCSI adapters or the IDE ports. None of the three computer I have now have that option.
 
Dells have almost no performance options in the BIOS,
but I used to have a Dell Pentium 2 and there was an
option in the system BIOS to allow me to boot from any
disk on two SCSI adapters or the IDE ports. None of
the three computer I have now have that option.
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They all have SCSI ?
How then do they expect one to boot from a particular SCSI
drive? I can't help but think you're overlooking something
in the bios menus or the controller menus.
 
One has two SCSI adapters (it will boot from only the drive specified in the first adapter with an active BIOS), one has a IDE card that emulates SCSI, one does not support SCSI. Although they can be configured to boot from different IDE ports, none has a list of all hard drives in the system BIOS as the old Pentium 2 PC did.
 
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