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Thread merging is always a bad idea, as the flow of conversation is completely lost.

Isn't it SAS that is supposed to accomodate SATA drives, not the other way around?

Correct. There were no hardware changes made between when it was working and when it stopped working (only software). The drives are all jumpered correctly. I have not changed any of the jumpers -- just the cables, swapping the two channels.

I have two Samsung P80s.

I have to agree with sechs. Most people seem far more interested doing things that reduce reliability, not increase it.

My inclination is that this is some kind of hardware issue, not a software one. For grins and giggles, I changed the boot order to point to invalid items (LS120, LAN, USB-Floppy, etc.) and no harddrives, and it did the same thing. If there are no valid boot devices, I should get an error.

Quick lunchtime update: Per others suggestions, I tried resetting the BIOS. Nada. I also tried swapping the primary and secondary IDE channels -- and it worked. Perviously, the two harddrives were on the primary, and the burner on the secondary. Anyone have a clue why this switcheroo...

For good measure, I did run a fixmbr. It doesn't make a difference. No error messages... it just sits there. If I change the boot order to remove boot to CD, it will hand after verifying dpmi data.

I have a computer that I was updating last night that suddenly refuses to boot from its harddisk. The computer has Windows XP SP1, and I had been updating its ATi graphics drivers. After successfully doing that, I decided to also reinstall the recovery console to the boot drive, since I hadn't...

Mahalo and Tahiti Nui... or something 8)