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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SCSI & IDE h/drive together; which will boot?
Date: 5 Dec 1994 22:27:14 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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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.


Nate
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