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by **noby** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 1:39 pm

can you use it when the OS is loaded?

noby

by **Cactus** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 4:35 pm

Boot from a Win98 boot disk...
Choose boot with CD-Rom support...
At the prompt type "E:/setup....or whatever your CD-Rom drive letter is,could be "D".

Should load from there.

Cactus

by **southerncross** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 4:28 am

Gecko, Yes does see drive but also says "bootable cd non evident"?

Nody, sure does Nody:)

Cactus, fine can do but need to be able to boot from xp cd.

by **Cactus** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 4:56 am

How do you have it installed on comp?
Try installing the CD-rom on IDE2 as Master.
Booting from the Win98 Floppy gives you CD-Rom support,you don't have to have the Boot sequence set to boot cd first.Just type the drive letter at the A: prompt.
Have you tried this?
Is the IDE cable installed correctly with RED LINE toward power connector?

Cactus

by **Gecko** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 1:39 pm

I take it that this is a CD-rw drive, you might need proprietary drivers for this drive to read CDs, hence the “bootable cd non evident” message.

What is the brand name and model number of this CD drive?

by **southerncross** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 12:25 am

Hi and thanks for your time......I do have an ide cd-rom fitted to the pc however it has been disabled for 2 yrs. because of suspected burnt-out (non-read and smell) I uninstalled it via device mgr. recently in an attempt to eliminate it totally from the boot/cd problem...

The remaining drive is a sony cd-r/rw-crx-145s (scsi).....this drive is seen at boot according to this msg received "boot from ATAPI cd-ROM" but when the cd's in question are loaded get "bootable cd non exist"..

Current aspi files installed, drivers reported not required as the drive is managed via the scsi card???

by **Gecko** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:58 am

Is this drive the only SCSI device on you SCSI adapter?
Are the Active Termination pins jumped correctly?
Have you set the SCSI ID correctly (do not set it as 7)?

by **tk4two1** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 3:27 pm

"boot from ATAPI CD-ROM" would mean that it is only looking for an ATAPI drive which is not a SCSI drive. See if your BIOS has SCSI in the boot order that should fix it. If not there should be a seperate BIOS for your SCSI card. What kind of SCSI card do you have?

by **southerncross** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 1:38 am

Gecko
yes it is the only scsi device in the pc, it is the only cd-rw connected. I do not know how to answer these two questions, how can I find this info?

"Are the Active Termination pins jumped correctly?
Have you set the SCSI ID correctly (do not set it as 7)?"

by **southerncross** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 1:55 am

by **noby** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 5:36 am

first, you must know what card it is.
2 ways : in device manager under scusi, or open the box and look for the label on the card.

All information is available at adaptec.com

noby

by **southerncross** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:52 am

thanks noby found the mod#. ADAPTEC AIC-7850 pci scsi
looking for the info. on their site atm..an hour later searching and found nothing even close to this card, must be an oldie? have also done a google search everthing there is win98' based?

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