XP will not boot with External Array attached

[teqmod]

I have a new system that I need to attach an array to. I installed an Adaptec 29320 SCSI card and the system booted fine. I loaded the latest drivers and all was well. I attached an external array to the system and the system hangs at the XP logo with the blue line below it. If I disconnect hte array it works fine. If I attach the array to a seperate system that system boots fine. If I attach a different array to the new system it will not boot. I added a different SCSI card to the system and moved the existing SCSI card to a different slot and it booted normally and I thought I was in the clear. All drives were recognized and everything appeared to be functioning properly. When I shut down the system and removed what I thought to be a faulty SCSI card and booted the system back up the system hung in the same location. I verified I removed the original SCSI card and not the replacement I installed. The system will still boot with no array attached but as soon as it is and powered on the machine hangs. I tried to enable boot logging but apparently it does not even get that far because no log was created. Any ideas??

 

[MMSMSD]

From all the info you provide, it sounds to me like your SCSI IDs are wrong in some way. You either have 2 devices with the same ID or you have one device in your external array with a higher ID than the boot drive. Your SCSI card should be at 7, your boot drive should be at 6 and the remaining devices down from there. To play it safe, I'd start the IDs of the external devices at 15 and work down to 8. Hope this helps.

 

[teqmod]

Sorry should have updated this. The cable is the only thing I had not swapped around and sure enough that was the issue. Thanks for your input though!