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From: Brian McEntire <mcentire@sdd.comsat.com>
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI PCI host adapter
Date: 28 Aug 1995 16:10:55 GMT
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>> But what if I want to boot of the SCSI drive connected to my NCR
>> host adapter?  My motherboard is an Opti PCI/VLB 100 Mhz.
>
>You need an SDMS SCSI BIOS, either on your SCSI controller or in your 
>system BIOS. Also you have to disable your IDE-Controller.


Why must he disable the IDE? I am about to buy a SCSI disk to boot and run
LINUX and would like to keep my 1.2 G EIDE drive in the system for DOS. Is this
impossible?