SCSI and IDE! Please help!

[Dave Nicoll]

Having read a few posts on these forums, I opted to purchase a Maxtor ATA/133 PCI adapter card and put a large IDE drive in our Proliant ML350 - which already has 2 SCSI drivers (RAID).

Problem though is no matter what order I put the boot devices in the BIOS, the SCSI controller doesn't start first, the IDE controller does!

Does anyone know how to sort this out?

Tia,
Dave.

[clay bowman]

I had the same issue a few months back, and to fix it I had to flash the Array controller. Worth a try

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

That's the ordinary way that it's work,
the proliant work in this order SCSI then IDE
I know that exists bios's that give and
option to select the order.
Also some boards that you set jumpers for.

Caesar

[Janine Bertolo]

You may need to disable the BIOS on the ATA card to allow the ProLiant BIOS to recognize it as secondary in the boot order.

Check with Maxtor for the way to do this.

Janine

[Kevin Taylor_2]

I'm having the same issue with a ML-350 D02. I'm using the onboard IDE controller for a Western Digital 80gb drive. With the IDE drive installed, regardless of how I set boot order in the BIOS, the server will ALWAYS default to the IDE drive as the primary boot device and will not boot from the SCSI drive. If I remove the conncetion to the IDE drive or disable the Primary IDE controller, it boots normally from the SCSI hard drive.

So... Ummm..... HELP!

[Felix Rey]

could anyone resolve this issue?
I need to boot from SCSI (as normally I do), but when i connect an IDE HD to the integrated IDE controller, then the Proliant try to boot from IDE, and the OS obviouslly can't be found. In setup only appears boot from CDROM, FLOPPY OR IDE, not SCSI!!

Exist a manneer to fix it?

Felix.

[Greg Smith_9]

Install the card into the PCI slot without the drives attached to it (I put it as far away from the SmartArray Controller as I could - Slot 1). Press to get into the BIOS setup. Disable the new PCI IDE controller by cursoring down to it and pressing enter on and down arrow to . Save and turn off. Install the drives on the new controller and reboot. When Windows 2000 comes up it will find it!!! Being disabled in BIOS does not mean disabling it in Windows. I just installed a SIIG Ultra ATA 133 card in a Proliant 2500 with a Western Digital 250 gig drive this way. Still boots on the SmartArray controller and has lots of cheap slow storage.