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Drive Connection and Jumpering
Hello,
I have a Dell PowerEdge 600SC running the A09 BIOS. The mobo has 3 IDE controllers. I have two IDE hard drives connected to the Primary IDE controller, with one jumpered as the master and the other as the slave. I have a DVD drive and a CD-ROM drive connected to the Secondary IDE controller with the DVD drive jumpered as the master and the CD-ROM drive as the slave. The system also has a connected 3.5" floppy drive. There is currently nothing connected to the Tertiary IDE controller. The BIOS and Windows XP both see all the drives, and I can use all the drives without problems. However, now I have a need to configure both the DVD and CD-ROM drives in the boot sequence, but I can only get one of them at a time to show up in the boot sequence setting in the BIOS. I can make it the DVD *or* the CD-ROM, but not both at the same time. I've tried putting the DVD and CD-ROM drives on different controllers and changing the jumper settings accordingly, but none of the combinations I've tried have worked. The only combination that I have not tried is putting the DVD drive on the same cable as the primary hard drive, and the CD-ROM drive on the same cable as the secondary hard drive, or vice versa (I've heard that can slow down hard drive operation). What I would like is a boot order like the following: DVD drive CD-ROM drive Hard drive Floppy drive How can I connect and jumper the drives in the system to get that boot order? Thanks for any help that you can offer. --Tom |
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Sorry! Meant to post that to the hardware group. Please ignore.
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"Thomas M." wrote in message ... Hello, I have a Dell PowerEdge 600SC running the A09 BIOS. The mobo has 3 IDE controllers. I have two IDE hard drives connected to the Primary IDE controller, with one jumpered as the master and the other as the slave. I have a DVD drive and a CD-ROM drive connected to the Secondary IDE controller with the DVD drive jumpered as the master and the CD-ROM drive as the slave. The system also has a connected 3.5" floppy drive. There is currently nothing connected to the Tertiary IDE controller. The BIOS and Windows XP both see all the drives, and I can use all the drives without problems. However, now I have a need to configure both the DVD and CD-ROM drives in the boot sequence, but I can only get one of them at a time to show up in the boot sequence setting in the BIOS. I can make it the DVD *or* the CD-ROM, but not both at the same time. I've tried putting the DVD and CD-ROM drives on different controllers and changing the jumper settings accordingly, but none of the combinations I've tried have worked. The only combination that I have not tried is putting the DVD drive on the same cable as the primary hard drive, and the CD-ROM drive on the same cable as the secondary hard drive, or vice versa (I've heard that can slow down hard drive operation). What I would like is a boot order like the following: DVD drive CD-ROM drive Hard drive Floppy drive How can I connect and jumper the drives in the system to get that boot order? Thanks for any help that you can offer. --Tom With the BIOSs I've seen the machines would boot off the following devices: 1. The master optical drive (if available) 2. The slave optical drive (if available) 3. The hard disk. If this does not meet your requirements then asking the experts in a hardware newsgroup might be a good idea. This is a Windows newsgroup, yet nothing in your post is in any way related to Windows. |
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