Re: CD bootable disk "can't operate HD"

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 13:14:36 UTC, Peter Brown
<losepeteSPAM-ME-NOT@xxxxxxxxxxxx> opined:
> Hi Stan
>
> Stan Goodman wrote:
> > I am still perplexed by the behavior of my system in booting from CDs. I
> > would like to try again to gain some insight from the comments of others on
> > what I see, which is as follows:
> >
> > There are two drives in the system, both IDE; a Toshiba DVD burner is Master
> > on the Primary controller, a Samsung CD reader is Master on the Secondary
> > controller.
>
>
>
> I would suggest a reconfiguration of your drives.
>
> Make the HD with Boot Manager on it - the drive the system boots from -
> the Master on IDE0 and the 2nd HD the Slave on that channel.
>
> Make the DVD burner the Master on IDE1 with the CD as the Slave.
>
> Things may work a little better then.

The concensus seems to be that I had better reconfigure, and I will. Part of
the problem may be in the fact that the BM is on the SCSI disk, which is no
longer Disk1 since I put in a new IDE HD.

What I am thinking of doing is removing the BM from the SCSI HD to the new
IDE HD, so that it is on Disk1. Disk2 would not be in the configuration at
all, being SCSI. I can then devote the second controller to the DVD burner
(Master) and the CD reader (slave). Pretty much as you suggest.


> >
> > When I boot the system with a bootable CD (e.g. the eCS v1.1 Installation
> > disk) in the CD reader, it is ignored, and the system boots straightaway
> > from the HD.
> >
> > When I boot the system with the same CD in the DVD burner, the system asks
> > me if I want to boot from CD or HD. It then goes about unpacking archives in
> > preparation for booting, and finally puts up a message saying : "eCS is
> > unable to operate your hard disk or diskette drive. The system is stopped".
> > If it were to tell me that it couldn't operate the DVD burner, I might
> > believe it, although the installed system has no trouble with that drive.
> >
> > Both HDs work, as do both CD drives. I don't know if the diskette drive does
> > or not, as I haven't used it in years, and the CD should care about this as
> > little as I do.
> >
> > The BIOS boot choices are 1)ATAPI CD, 2)Floppy, 3)HD, 4)"Other boot devices"
> > What is this uninformative error message _really_ trying to tell me? How, if
> > at all, can I narrow down its meaning?
> >
> > Why doesn't the CD reader even try to boot?

--
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

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