Hi Ding,
Back when I had a mixed SCSI-IDE system I also was unable to get the SCSI
drive to be the boot drive as long as the IDE had an active partition. I
have an Adaptec 2940UW in an ABIT BX6, which also allows booting from SCSI.
It still wouldn't no matter. What I did was use fdisk on the IDE drive.
Granted you lose anything on the partition. Fdisk doesn't seem to have the
ability to simply de-activate a partition. Once the active IDE partition was
gone, then I was able to install in conjunction with the SCSI drives.
Ultimately removing all IDE devices was my best move.

Brad Loomis
Los Angeles, CA


The SCSI Bios shows all the SCSI ID's and peripheral. and have the ABIT
bios select to boot from "SCSI "  as you mentioned and yet  it still
boot to IDE 1 hard disk.

Ding Marcelo

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