---------- On Tuesday, September 15, 1998 7:35 PM Brad Loomis wrote: As it turns out, I didn't have the drive enabled to spin up in SCSI Select. So David was right, but for a different reason. This leads to my next question: How do I configure things so I can boot from this drive? Is this not possible as long as I have the WD-Caviar drive installed? I was unable to set any part of the SCSI drive as active, in fdisk, in order to boot to that drive and make it my main drive and the WD as a back up drive. Doesn't seem to matter what boot order I have set up in the BIOS. I want to install System Commander to be able to use LINUX and Win95 SR2, and DOS 6.22. Any recommendations on partition sizes would also be most appreciated. I asked this some time ago, but got no response. Thank you Brad Loomis Brad, Boot order of SCSI devices is controlled by the adapter. Typically you tell the SCSI adapter's onboard BIOS which drive (or drive order) to boot. An Adaptec 2940 searches all devices attached for bootable sectors. This leads to some interesting setups if you are casual with details. My SCSI CD drive always boots first, unless it is empty or not bootable, then my A: drive is searched, then my D: hard disk. You can force the search to start with a particular SCSI ID, the default is zero. Each disk can have an active partition. I don't understand your fdisk problem. Try deleting all partitions, then creating the primary partition, and setting the primary partition as active. For what its worth, my only multi-boot pc uses a 200 meg system partition for each operating system, and a massive FAT data partition all the operating systems can share. I'm using NT, not Linux. Tom Turak ----- **Need help with PCBUILD mailing list? Send an Email to:** Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> or Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>