Thanks William, yes i think the reason the 9100FT does not boot from the existing hard disk could be because of a disk IO issue, i also find it strange that until I don’t remove the MIF/ SCSI card the system does not boot up. I am unable to boot the system with F2,F4 and soft key with the SCSI card connected to the system. When I remove the SCSI card, and initiate a boot using F2,F4 and soft key i am able to access service disk, and under normal startup the system ask me to insert system disk, once all is loaded the system hangs. Thanks Tony, I did enable reporting of IO errors but observed no change or errors reported, I am not sure what to expect. I did the following: Remove SCSI card Boot service floopy ,enable IO reporting Boot from the 3 system floppies No it does not boot into normal operation instead hangs with no access to the keys I am looking into the SCSI2SD option, but not quite sure as to why the system hangs and the system being unable to progress with SCSI card in, only to display : real time clock not initialized. Many thanks to all your advice, i very much appreciate. -- Regards, Kevit Desai Tel: Mobile: +254 722 517067 _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist@flippers.com https://pairlist7.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist FTP site is: ftp://ttl.arcadetech.org/TTL/Test_Equipment Archive site: http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/techtoolslist/