Boot from SCSI CD-ROM fails on P4C800

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Peter J. Persing

I have a CD that I use to do all kinds of utility operations such as image
copy/restore of hard drives, copy one hard drive to another, etc. It works
on all my computers EXCEPT my P4C800. What happens in detail is that all
goes well until it is time to load ASPICD.SYS. Then I get an error message
that says the Adaptec 39160 controller cannot be found. Now here is the
really wierd part. If I take the floppy diskette that I used to make the
bootable CD and stick it in drive A: and boot the computer, ASPICD.SYS loads
fine. I can then insert the CD, change to the CD drive, and run all the
programs on the CD just fine. Right now that is my work-around. I have made
a lot of utility boot CD's and they have always worked, but this one has me
stumped. I have the latest drivers, the latest BIOS, and as I say it works
from the floppy. Anyone ever experienced this kind of problem?
 
Peter J. Persing said:
I have a CD that I use to do all kinds of utility operations such as image
copy/restore of hard drives, copy one hard drive to another, etc. It works
on all my computers EXCEPT my P4C800. What happens in detail is that all
goes well until it is time to load ASPICD.SYS. Then I get an error message
that says the Adaptec 39160 controller cannot be found. Now here is the
really wierd part. If I take the floppy diskette that I used to make the
bootable CD and stick it in drive A: and boot the computer, ASPICD.SYS loads
fine. I can then insert the CD, change to the CD drive, and run all the
programs on the CD just fine. Right now that is my work-around. I have made
a lot of utility boot CD's and they have always worked, but this one has me
stumped. I have the latest drivers, the latest BIOS, and as I say it works
from the floppy. Anyone ever experienced this kind of problem?
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Your problem is not unlike what I posted for my P4P800 a few days earlier
except that my CDs were IDE. Error message said it couldn't find any drives.
I reset the BIOS to default and left the IDE as enhanced (someones post says
you have to be compatible but on my board that removes the IDE CD as a
bootable device). The Enhanced is set to S-ATA, originally had been set to
S-ATA and P-ATA, (I don't have any S-ATA drives). Whatever did it, I know
not what, but it boots from CD now and finds both CD drives.
Billh
 
billh said:
Your problem is not unlike what I posted for my P4P800 a few days earlier
except that my CDs were IDE. Error message said it couldn't find any drives.
I reset the BIOS to default and left the IDE as enhanced (someones post says
you have to be compatible but on my board that removes the IDE CD as a
bootable device). The Enhanced is set to S-ATA, originally had been set to
S-ATA and P-ATA, (I don't have any S-ATA drives). Whatever did it, I know
not what, but it boots from CD now and finds both CD drives.
Billh
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Thought a bit more about it and I think by making setting Enhanced to S-ATA
only it made the Parallel IDE drive non-enhanced which might be interpreted
as Compatible without using the Compatible BIOS setting. I should point out
a bonus from this is my Drive Image which runs in DOS now transfers data
about 40% faster!
Billh
 
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