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I have a Seagate Barracuda 9GB and an Adaptec 2940w PCI card. The drive is showing in the Device Manager but not in My Comp. It doesn't show in the Admin tools either. If I set the drive as bootable in the Adaptec bios, then it shows the Seagate drive as Drive C. How can I set it up to be a storage only drive ? My current system drive is a WD Raptor SATA drive.

*Edit* Running WinXP Pro.

Does the SCSI card detect the drive when it boots (scsi bios loaded)? You should see this on the pc screen when the pc boots.

Yes it does detect it on a boot up. It tries to boot to it and then says "invalid system disk" because there is noting on it. I have SCSI/RAID set as first boot device because the SATA drive needs that setting. When I disable the SCSI bios, my comp boots up but the SCSI drive does not appear within WinXP. It does show in the device manager and in AIDA32. I have tried different SCSI ID numbers on it with no change.

iSilly question , is the drive formated?

The problem..

I have SCSI/RAID set as first boot device because the SATA drive needs that setting.

I think this is diabling the ability to use the SCSI I could be wrong.. Perhaps you could try an SATA card and the SCSI combined? I don't know much about either so, like I said, I could be wrong.

The SCSI drive was not formatted, now it is. If I enable the SCSI bios on the Adaptec card, then it tries to boot to the SCSI drive and says "Invalid System Disk, insert system disk and hit ANY key". I thought you could use a scsi disk for storage if you didn't enable the scsi bios. Yet another item that I can't use on an Epox 8RDA3+. The DFI LanParty nForce Ultra mobo is starting to look good as a replacement to this Epox.

It should work, as I have about the same thing. I have an old IBM 18 gig that I use for storage. There is no active partition on it, and the scsi bios does load on startup. In my bios, it boots to the IDE hd as that is what I have selected: IDE0.