After thinking about this for another moment, I remembered in order to boot off of those two drives, I had to set "SCSI device" as the first boot-up device in my BIOS. Bear in mind, I am running mine in RAID0. I can't recall for certain, but I have a slight inkling that my motherboard can't boot off of those IDE channels unless they're in a RAID configuration... Hope this helps, John >>> rpgoldman at real-time.com 08/20/02 03:08PM >>> John Hoffoss writes: > It's perhaps a simple thing, but my mobo has a jumper on it to > enable IDE3 and IDE4 as RAID, and if it's not set to that, then > they are both just two more IDE channels. Both now, and when you > were trying to get your RAID to work, are you certain you had the > jumper set correctly? And is the RAID device now disabled in BIOS? > I think my mobo will have the drives show up when the IDE > controller initializes, but I had problems at one point because I > had set the BIOS setting wrong. Hm. I can see how that might have made it impossible for me to use the device as a RAID device, but what I'm doing IS grabbing these two drives up as just two more IDE channgels (hde and hdf), so why would that make the device unbootable? I did tweak something in the RAID bios to (allegedly) make the drive bootable, but that doesn't seem to have done anything (the BIOS interface, even for a BIOS, which is always crude, is just plain TERRIBLE). _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020820/5e070f08/attachment.htm