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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kei.com!travelers.mail.cornell.edu!newstand.syr.edu!mailbox.syr.edu!smcarey From: smcarey@mailbox.syr.edu (Shawn Carey) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: SCSI & IDE h/drive together; which will boot? Date: 6 Dec 1994 15:18:35 GMT Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Lines: 30 Message-ID: <3c1vcb$dk6@newstand.syr.edu> References: <3buhjl$pcc@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> <3c0442$546@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sudial-105.syr.edu In article <3c0442$546@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >In article <3buhjl$pcc@ucthpx.uct.ac.za>, >S Marquard <smarq@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> wrote: >>With a SCSI & IDE drive in the same machine, which one will the computer >>boot on? > >IDE. > >>Is it possible to set this one way or another? Does it depend on the >>drive or controller make? > >Nope, it's a function of the PC hardware and BIOS. > True, but you can in fact make the SCSI drive boot when an IDE drive is present if you tell the BIOS that the IDE drive is not installed. This works fine if you're using both drives for FreeBSD, but if you want to boot something from the IDE drive you'll need to reconfigure the drive in the BIOS setup. > >Nate >-- >nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD dude and all around tech. >nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. >work #: (406) 994-4836 | Unemployed, looking for permanant work in >home #: (406) 586-0579 | CS/EE field. -Shawn Carey