A service necessary for IDE is set improperly.  It should be boot or auto,
it might be set to manual.  I don't use NT server with ide so I can't check
for you which one, but the service name is pretty self-explanatory, or, you
can do this: check services after a boot when the ide drive is missing, open
disk administrator and reassign F:, then check services and see what's
changed.  The changed services are the one or ones you need to reset so they
will always start on a system restart.
Tom Turak

-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Finnigan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 11:23 AM

My Windows NT 4 server stops recognizing the 20GB IDE hard drive i have
attached as a secondary slave when i have to restart the system. i have to
open Disk Administrator and reassign the drive letter. it's a pain because
reassigning the drive letter is easy, but any shared folders lose their
settings.

two 4GB SCSI drives (Quantum), one of which is the boot drive
one Fujitsu 20GB IDE drive

the SCSI boot drive is has a small FAT partition and a larger NTFS partition
(drives C and D)
the second SCSI drive is NTFS and is assigned drive E
the CD drive is G

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