2 scsi and 1 IDE hard drive 1

[mysonaron]

I have a Dell Precision 410 workstation which I am rebuilding. I have installed and IDE drive and 2 scsi hard drives. During start up the scsi host recognizes my scsi hard drives on ID0 and ID1, since I set the jumpers accordingly. I installed the windows 2000 operating system on the IDE drive. The problem is that windows 2000 will only recognize the scsi drive on ID0. Any thoughts...

 

[Accessdabbler]

Doesn't the BIOS give you the option to boot from IDE or SCSI?

 

[Freestone]

"windows 2000 will only recognize the scsi drive on ID0"

From where are you viewing drives? Explorer, or Disk Management? Drive on ID1 drive formatted?

 

[edfair]

Is there a fdisk you can use to look at the drives? Should be able to see them even if the partition is garbaged.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[mysonaron]

Thank you all for all the replies. Thanksgiving weekend away. Freestone, "windows 2000 will only recognize the scsi drive on ID0", is there any reason why? I seem to agree with you on this because that is the only drive I see.

I have tried fdisk but all i get is an a prompt after the large disk support message

I am viewing the drives in Disk Management, and Explorer.

 

[Freestone]

Sorry, I should have emphasized
"windows 2000 will only recognize the scsi drive on ID0"


I was quoting you and asking questions regarding that quote.

 

[Freestone]

Try swapping SCSI IDs and see what drive(s) appear. Also ensure your SCSI bus is terminated properly.

 

[mysonaron]

I tried the swop thing there Freestone. No luck yet. At the point of giving up right now.

 

[Freestone]

So what did you swap and what appeared? Where in Windows 2000 are you trying to view drives? Disk Management is where you want to look.

 

[mysonaron]

HAve been viewing drives in Disk Management all the time. I actually took the disk off of scsi id 0 and the disk at scsi id1 was recognized as scsi id0. Maybe I am doing something wrong with the scsi configuration..

 

[Freestone]

Wonder if assigning a different ID to the drive currently set to 1, to say 2 or 4, to change the ID bit position, if then both drives would show up. You can't use ID 7 as that is the controller's ID. Also wonder if swapping the drives physical connection on the cable would show anything. I guess I'm driving at the SCSI cable perhaps being bad.

 

[mysonaron]

Both scsi drives are recognized with the scsi select utility. If I take the drive at id0 off, then only can I see the other drive in windows.

 

[Freestone]

Any termination jumpers on the drives? The drives should not be terminated as the cable is self-terminating. The manual for drive installation is at:

http://docs.us.dell.com/docs/systems/deqkmt/en/eq_mdt/DRIVES.HTM

 

[mysonaron]

Freestone, thank you for all your input. I finally managed to find the culprit. It was the scsi cable. Just replaced it and all worked out fine. Thank you again.

 

[Freestone]

I'm glad to set that you've solved the problem. And thank you for posting your resolution.