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In article <NEWTNews.819496475.13845.apmorgan@us010277>,
   andrew p morgan <apmorgan@interramp.com> wrote:
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>I am having troubles installing a quantum atlas 4gig scsi drive.
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>I have successfully copied files from my 1.2gig eide conner to my
>quantum 4gig atlas, now i want to remove my eide and boot off my 
>quantum.
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>when i remove cable to eide drive and eliminate from my CMOS setup
>and try to boot from scsi drive i get disk I/O error.
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>i tried booting from startup disk and run fdisk i get a can't find
>fixed disk error. when i put eide drive back in fdisk runs fine.
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>i'm  trying to set my scsi drive as the active partition, but since i can't
>run fdisk without eide drive installed and fdisk only lets eide drive be 
>active partition, i'm in a catch-22
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>i'm using regular dos fdisk and format, since adaptec low level format 
>utility fails
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>any help is appreciated
>andrew
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Dont know if this will help (ya never know...)  did you:

1. on your i/o card (the one where your mouse & printer plug into) 
   did you disable the hard drive? That would definitely cause an
   error if it was still looking for the ide drive.  There should
   be a bunch of jumpers on the card, and if youre lucky they'll 
   be labeled either next to the jumpers or sometimes on the back
   of the card.

2. Now, I have an Adaptec 2940, but its the cheap oem one, so it
   has no jumpers or anything, but if you have the regular one, it
   should have jumpers... Make sure its set to host.

3. Terminators:  Do you have any other SCSI devices hooked up to 
   the card?  If so, you have to make sure that the last device 
   on each end is terminated.  The schematics of the drive should 
   tell you where the terminators are.  For instance, if the only
   SCSI devices on your system are the hard drive and the SCSI 
   card, then they should both be terminated.  (the scsi card 
   should almost always be terminated unless you have something
   plugged into it externally, then whatever you have plugged into
   it would be the terminated one)  That is very important - terminators
   only on the ends....

Hope this helps, 

Stiletto