New to SCSI hardware:(
01 September 2004, 04:36 PM
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New to SCSI hardware:(
OK, basically I have purchased an SCSI ultra 320 Maxtor hard drive and have now got an Adaptec duel channel Ultra 320 SCSI card.
I want the SCSI drive to be the master (C: drive)
The system is set up at the moment with 2 IDE hard drives with CD-RW and DVD-RW, with the CD-RW on primary slave, and the DVD-RW on secondary slave.
So If I am removing the primary IDE drive and replacing that with the SCSI hard drive, what would be the best set-up. (Do I have to run a SCSI CD-RW drive??) Also the computer will have to boot from the SCSI controller, is this done in the BIOS set-up??
And how do you copy the info from the IDE hard drive that I am replacing to the new SCSI hard drive.
I thought this may turn out to be a pain in the ***
I want the SCSI drive to be the master (C: drive)
The system is set up at the moment with 2 IDE hard drives with CD-RW and DVD-RW, with the CD-RW on primary slave, and the DVD-RW on secondary slave.
So If I am removing the primary IDE drive and replacing that with the SCSI hard drive, what would be the best set-up. (Do I have to run a SCSI CD-RW drive??) Also the computer will have to boot from the SCSI controller, is this done in the BIOS set-up??
And how do you copy the info from the IDE hard drive that I am replacing to the new SCSI hard drive.
I thought this may turn out to be a pain in the ***
01 September 2004, 05:07 PM
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Just quickly...
SCSI card has a BIOS of its own - It will boot from the identified bootable SCSI device of your choice.
You need to go into the m/board bios & tell it to boot from SCSI over booting from IDE though.
Your boot drive will be C: & the others D: E: etc unless you define them as something else.
You will need to install a bootable OS onto the SCSI device. Once installed, you will be able to copy data from the IDE drives to the SCSI in explorer or simillar. You won't be able to just copy the device files across and expect it to boot - for that you'd need a program like Ghost & thats another new query!
SCSI card has a BIOS of its own - It will boot from the identified bootable SCSI device of your choice.
You need to go into the m/board bios & tell it to boot from SCSI over booting from IDE though.
Your boot drive will be C: & the others D: E: etc unless you define them as something else.
You will need to install a bootable OS onto the SCSI device. Once installed, you will be able to copy data from the IDE drives to the SCSI in explorer or simillar. You won't be able to just copy the device files across and expect it to boot - for that you'd need a program like Ghost & thats another new query!
01 September 2004, 06:11 PM
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Cheers, I think I used 'Maxblast' the last time to copy from one hard drive to another, but don't know if that will work with the SCSI hard-drive.
Anyway I will see how I get on, although I have never heard of 'Ghost' program before, what does that do?
Anyway I will see how I get on, although I have never heard of 'Ghost' program before, what does that do?
01 September 2004, 06:51 PM
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Ghost is a very good imaging program made by Norton. You can take an image of your pc's hard drive and then use it to restore the pc back to exactly how you had it at the time of making the image instead of starting afresh with an installation cd and rebuilding.
One very good use for example is if you had 100 pcs all the same spec in an office to build you would make one how you wanted it normally, then image it and stick the image on the other 99 pcs - job done.
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/
One very good use for example is if you had 100 pcs all the same spec in an office to build you would make one how you wanted it normally, then image it and stick the image on the other 99 pcs - job done.
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/
01 September 2004, 07:29 PM
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