Adding IDE HD behind SCSI HD

I am trying to to add an IDE hard drive for storage behind a SCSI hard drive with the OS on it. I wnt the machine to still boot to the SCSI (C) drive. As soon as I power on with the IDE drive installed, the machine goes stupid, and sees only the IDE as C: and won't even look for the SCSI.

I put the IDE on the CD/RW cable. Changing BIOS settings did not fix it. Pull the power plug on the IDE and the machine reverts to normal. How do I get the machine to ignore the IDE in the boot sequence. What am I missing here? Should the Storage drives jumper be set to "SL" or "CS" or...?

Thanx fer the input. This thing is making me a little buggy.

(IBM MPRO, Dual CPU- P3/550Mhz, 320mb ram, 9.1Gb SCSI, 80 Gb WD-IDE, W2K Pro)

 

Try putting the IDE drive as a slave as opposed to a Master.

Is your SCSI built in to the Mobo or is connected to a card?

Check your boot sequence in the BIOS, sometimes you can mkake SCSI first before anything.

 

i dont mean to question your knowledge or anything ... and i could be wrong as im not familiar with SCSI at all ... but shouldn't it be set to single? because they are operating on two different channels? i dunno ...

it definitely sounds like a BIOS issue to me ... I have to change a number of things in there before it would even recognize my SATA drive ... there was this option "hard disk boot proirity" and a special SATA menu that i had to set

anyway ... i hope this helps:
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/scsi/confIDE-c.html

 

Yes the SCSi cable goes directly to the MOBO. IDE cable also goes direct to the MOBO. Last thing I tried was to update the SCSI Bios but that made no changes either.

I keep playing with the BIOS settings but to no avail.

 

I agree the problem is in your BIOS setup and if possible you should set your boot priority so SCSI is first; except for when you need to boot from a floppy or optical drive.

I would only put an IDE hard drive on the same channel as an optical drive as a last resort.

Good luck

 

Thanx for the link Pyrate. There was some good info there but I'm not sure anything there will make mine work. Mine has an older bios that does not have the settings in it to make life easy. I know this setup is possible with this machine, I picked up this machine from someone who still has one identical and added an IDE storge drive to it but he paid a shop to configure it when we ran into this same problem. I'm stubbornly on a quest for knowlege here, I want to learn this setup myself.Thanx again for any ideas.

Will some type of 3rd party boot-managing software take this over or will that code still be in the MBR of the SCSI drive that must be located first?

 

Have you checked to see if there is a BIOS update available?

 

did you try that? if nothing in the BIOS works it couldn't hurt