velryba

I have SCSI HD and will need another one as a big luck of space.
But what I've found that if I plug in IDE HD it always boots 1st even if the jumpers are set as slave.
What am I doing wrong?
Do I have to get SCSI HD?
Am I loosing any speed etc. if I get IDE isnstead of SCSI?

I know lotsa Q but help appriciated
thanks
robert

Rob Walker

You probably need to go into your bios and select the scsi drive as the primary boot drive...

velryba

as far as I remember I did that
but the thing is that the IDE one was set as C:/ and didn't know how to change that

Puff The Magic Wagon!

iTrader: (2)

Don't put bootable software on the IDE for one thing!!

Is BIOS to set to SCSI boot? Is SCSI ID set as 1st or boot drive?

Should be a BIOS thing methinks (either m/board or SCSI).

Putting a drive as a slave doesn't make it not boot if it is bootable.

velryba

well can't remember exactly as that was only for couple of hours when i had the HD, but the main Q is:

should i get SCSI or IDE disk (as money are the thing) so either big IDE or smaller SCSI for me

Figment

As you've already got SCSI, I would be inclined to get another one.

velryba

ok and thank you all