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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: SCSI & IDE h/drive together; which will boot? Date: 6 Dec 1994 18:24:49 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3c2a9h$mkp@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <3buhjl$pcc@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> <3c0442$546@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <3c1vcb$dk6@newstand.syr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <3c1vcb$dk6@newstand.syr.edu>, Shawn Carey <smcarey@mailbox.syr.edu> 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 didn't work on one of the machines I was using. I had to hack the bootblocks to go to the SCSI disk. 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.