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From: t.d.g.sandford@bradford.ac.uk (Thomas Sandford)
Subject: Re: Can I boot from an AHA1542C with an IDE on board?
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Warren Stevens (wgsteven@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
: I have a Adaptec 1542C with a magnetic optical drive attached and my
: regular 120Meg hard drive, connected to a generic IDE controller.  Is
: there some way i can boot linux/386bsd derivitive directly from the
: SCSI controller?  I'd rather not reformat my IDE drive, and set up
: things that redirect the boot process to a different controller.
: Any ideas?

If you mean "can I set up to boot off my magneto-optical (or other SCSI) drive"
the answer is - set the disk type for your IDE drive(s) to 0 using your CMOS
setup program. The BIOS will then ignore them when it is looking for a boot
device, and will pick up your first SCSI drive as configured by the Adaptec.
This works well (I've been doing this to select OS's for 6 months now).
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Thomas Sandford | t.d.g.sandford@bradford.ac.uk