can't see all hard drives

We've added 6 external hard drives in addition to the 4 internal hard drives.
Now setup no longer sees the internal SCSI drive with the boot partition.
Setup only sees 8 hard drives.

Can we expand the number of drives Setup HDD Devices sees?

yet another geek wrote:

We've added 6 external hard drives in addition to the 4 internal hard drives.
Now setup no longer sees the internal SCSI drive with the boot partition.
Setup only sees 8 hard drives.

Can we expand the number of drives Setup HDD Devices sees?

The answer is a tentative "yes". The first step would be to
check and see what the bios is seeing and its configuration.
Normally, one would disable the IDE controllers as the boot
device and designate the SCSI host adapter. However, adding
the new external drives, especially if any were IDE drives,
would have altered the system's bios setup. Even if these HD's
were SCSI, one needs to verify that the correct Target ID and
LUN is being identified by the SCSI host adapter as the boot
partition. Once the bios is reading everything correctly, so
should Disk Management.

yet another geek wrote:

We've added 6 external hard drives in addition to the 4 internal hard drives.
Now setup no longer sees the internal SCSI drive with the boot partition.
Setup only sees 8 hard drives.

Can we expand the number of drives Setup HDD Devices sees?

On re-reading the qeustion, this reply might be more applicable.

One additional question: How many partitions are there in all of
the 10 drives, both external and internal? And how many other
drives (e.g., CD, DVD, etc.) are there? The maximum number of
drive partitions that are allowed is 24, from Drive C to Drive Z.

As a matter of curiosity, why do you need 10 hard drives? I take it you do
actually mean 10 physical hard drives and not a smaller number of physical
hard drives some of which have more than one partition. If you have 4
internal drives do you also have an external CD / DVD drive - or how else do
you install software? It seems excessive - without knowing the reason for
doing so.

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway
Computer Solutions

"yet another geek" yet another wrote in
message ...
We've added 6 external hard drives in addition to the 4 internal hard
drives.
Now setup no longer sees the internal SCSI drive with the boot partition.
Setup only sees 8 hard drives.

Can we expand the number of drives Setup HDD Devices sees?

"yet another geek" yet another wrote in
message ...
We've added 6 external hard drives in addition to the 4 internal hard
drives.
Now setup no longer sees the internal SCSI drive with the boot partition.
Setup only sees 8 hard drives.

Can we expand the number of drives Setup HDD Devices sees?

Lotta worms in the question regarding scsi, type of scsi, scsi ID,
termination, scsi bios etc. And if the added 6 hard drives are of scsi
nature as well.
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Jonny