HW: Gateway7400 Server, LSI 53C1010 Dual SCSI Cont, SCA 6 Drive LVD Backplane, IBM Ultrastar 17.5GB SCA80, SEAGATE Cheetah 35GB SCA80, BIOS P13(PCI4-17-00).
Installed Win2000Pro on 5Gb Partition on system with IBM drive only using (F6) LSI SCSI software driver. Added RedHat7.1 Linux on same drive; dual boot. No Probs.
Then added Seagate HDD as ID1 on same backplane; MBR is corrupted and system fails to boot any OS. Linux will install and use both drives without problem, only Win2000Pro will not run with both drives present.
*Tried: Clean install of Win2000Pro after SCSI controller format of both drives; Hangs on detecting hardware. Tried removing Seagate and adding after the detecting hw stage; both drives are seen by the install routine and the system installs, but then fails to re-boot with the message cannot find boot record; MBR has been corrupted again.
*Swapped the drives over (Seagate HDD = ID0) and this does not help.
*Contacted a techie at LSI and they confirmed the SCSI cont has the latest software and that the problem is probably not the SCSI cont (Linux has no problems).
Checked for failing backplane slot by using ID:2 and this did not help.
*Disabling the backplane auto termination by removing the Jumper on JP6; no effect. (The drives are auto allocated ids as they are LVD).
Any ideas? (Except for sticking just to Linux!!!).
Installed Win2000Pro on 5Gb Partition on system with IBM drive only using (F6) LSI SCSI software driver. Added RedHat7.1 Linux on same drive; dual boot. No Probs.
Then added Seagate HDD as ID1 on same backplane; MBR is corrupted and system fails to boot any OS. Linux will install and use both drives without problem, only Win2000Pro will not run with both drives present.
*Tried: Clean install of Win2000Pro after SCSI controller format of both drives; Hangs on detecting hardware. Tried removing Seagate and adding after the detecting hw stage; both drives are seen by the install routine and the system installs, but then fails to re-boot with the message cannot find boot record; MBR has been corrupted again.
*Swapped the drives over (Seagate HDD = ID0) and this does not help.
*Contacted a techie at LSI and they confirmed the SCSI cont has the latest software and that the problem is probably not the SCSI cont (Linux has no problems).
Checked for failing backplane slot by using ID:2 and this did not help.
*Disabling the backplane auto termination by removing the Jumper on JP6; no effect. (The drives are auto allocated ids as they are LVD).
Any ideas? (Except for sticking just to Linux!!!).