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To: pae who wrote (3469)	11/12/1998 12:01:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

The "D,A,SCSI" option won't look past the D drive to boot off off the floppy A drive. (SCSI not installed here.) You lost me here. Why won't the BIOS look past the D drive to see the floppy A drive?

To: pae who wrote (3469)	11/12/1998 9:04:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

I am also inferring that the D E F referenced in the boot sequence options list more accurately refer to IDE drives 2, 3, and 4 and have little to do with logical drives. agreed And I think when using the "D,A,SCSI" option, the primary active partition of the 7.6G comes up as "C", the primary active partition of the 3.2G comes up as "D", E=ext. of 3.2g, F,G,H=ext. of 7.6G., Are you sure? My understanding is C,E,F,G on the 7.6 and then D,H on the 3.2G. Keep us posted..specifically as to NT issues ie NT on one drive and Win98 on a second with a bios boot selection. But, to install on OS on the primary active of the 7.6G? I think I have to switch the primary and secondary IDE ribbons to do so. Instead of swapping the IDE cable I just unplugged the second drive..forcing the OS install to only consider one drive. After I got both OSes working independently I then plugged both drives in at the same time. I worked with Win95 and Win98. D,A,SCSI (implies at least 2 HDD installed) my interpretation Or an IDE harddrive and a SCSI CDROM my guess Of course if I had enabled FAT32, the differnce wouldn't matter and 2 would equal D and 3=E and 4=F. So this probably is not nearly as confusing either with small HDs or with the fat32 (is that the same as NTFS?). You can map drives in NT..adds another twist. I don't know what NT uses for the basis of drive mapping..boot sequence as reported by the mobo bios or primary/slave drive position. Zeuspaul