Re: CD ROM failure

[u901841@student.canberra.edu.au (Hickey / Michael Gerard (ISE))]

In article <1994Jan19.032638.6782@iitmax.iit.edu>
CRAFJAY@minna.acc.iit.edu (Jay Craft) writes: 

>I seem to having problems with my CD-ROM 
>
>When I boot the computer, both scsi devices power up, but they
>don't boot.  Instead, my 3.5 drive boots!  Using the Apple SCSI
>utilities, it shows the CD-ROM as drive 1 with my HD partitions
>as 2,3,4.  It's apparently trying to boot the CD-ROM, and 
>changing the SCSI ID numbers on either device and the card don't
>seem to work (unless I missed something).  The hard drive and 
>CD-ROM show up on Copy // Plus (CDROM as S7 D1, HD as S7 D2).
>

Sounds like you have the CD-ROMs SCSI ID higher than the HD. Try making
the SCSI for your boot device '7'. 

The FAQ says that the SCSI card ties to boot the highest numbered device.
If it can't then I guess it passes control back to the boot ROM to try the
next slot.


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