Confused about whether or not I can use IDE disks on an IBM server

[SimonDavis]

I bought a pair of IBM X06 servers a while back, which came with 2 x 33gb SCSI disks in each - so far so good.

They both have IDE CD-Roms, and everything works OK, but I have some large capacity IDE disks which as far as I can tell, can't be used.

Is that correct?

If I put an IDE hard disk in, the machine won't start. same for a SATA disk. The computer has connections for both, but I can't find out whether they can be used, and if so - how?

These are both running Win2k.

Any ideas? I'd like to use my IDE disks . . .

Thanks

 

[ibmtech65]

If you add in EIDE drives and want to boot from the SCSI disks you will need to go into the F1 and change your startup order from Harddisk0 to harddisk1.

 

[SimonDavis]

Thanks. Is it really that simple?

I spent all day playing with the boot order etc, and although I'm certainly not a qualified engineer, I'd be surprised if I hadn't at least stumbled on some combination that works.

What happened is that it simply wouldn't find a boot device.

I'll take a look on Monday - the servers are in my office. Would be great if this solves it.

Cheers.

 

[ibmtech65]

Windows looks for IDE drives to boot from. When there is no IDE drives in a machine it has no problem finding the SCSI drives. But soon as you put in a IDE drive it detects it and that is the where it will always try to boot from. If you change the Harddisk from 0 to 1 it will skip the IDE and go for the SCSI.