Moving Boot drive to different SCSI controller...

**NightRust** · October 14th, 2005, 08:21 AM

My PC boots from a 9.2 GB Seagate Cheetah drive attached to a Tekram DC390U2W controller. The drive is U160 capable, but the controller isn't, so I'm running at Ultra2-Wide speeds.

To squeeze a little more performance out of my current rig, I'd like to install an Adaptec 29160 controller and move the boot drive onto it.

Can I do this without reinstalling the O/S (Win2K)?

I remember running into problems in the past with moving Win2K drives between systems and being unable to boot, although these cases involved IDE drive moving between motherboards. Will install the Adaptec card into an existing empty slot, loading the drivers, then moving the drive onto it avoid this problem.

**confus-ed** · October 14th, 2005, 08:36 AM

Originally Posted by NightRust

.. Will install the Adaptec card into an existing empty slot, loading the drivers, then moving the drive onto it avoid this problem.

Assuming no raid, that sounds like a plan to me

**Garak** · October 14th, 2005, 03:50 PM

I second that notion

**xpuser357** · October 14th, 2005, 08:09 PM

Thank you Garak for the cdrom lead on seagate diagnostics. I have a
laptop that does not have a floppy drive, but does have a seagate harddrive

**Garak** · October 14th, 2005, 09:33 PM

Originally Posted by xpuser357

Thank you Garak for the cdrom lead on seagate diagnostics. I have a
laptop that does not have a floppy drive, but does have a seagate harddrive

No problem

**NightRust** · October 17th, 2005, 12:02 PM

Installed the new card, loaded the drivers and swung the cabling over to the new card. Success!

Only obstacle I encountered was the 29160 card was running my drive in narrow, asynchronous mode, but a firmware update to the card cured that problem.

Thanks!