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From: mickey@cantina.clinet.fi (Mika Ruohotie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: One IDE + One SCSI??
Date: 23 Oct 1996 17:36:45 +0300
Organization: Clinet, Espoo, Finland
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References: <547r7m$mng@news.ox.ac.uk> <54dq59$2b0@theatre.pandora.sax.de> <Dzo9DM.DDE.G.nanguo@nanguo.chalmers.com.au>
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Robert Chalmers <robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au> wrote:
>Martin Welk (mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de) wrote:
>I could be wrong, but I came across something somewhere that says that
>if you have a SCSI and an IDE dirve in the same system, the SCSI will
>be the default boot device. Regardless of how you fdisk it.
nope.
well, it depends.
if your bios tells you have ide, it means you boot from ide, but if you
whack the ide off from bios, scsi boots.
simple. =)
ofcourse assuming your scsi id is either 0 or 1.
then if you need to, in either case you can boot from the other one
by telling manually in the boot time
hd(1,a)/whateverkernel
mickey
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mika@aeon.net mika ruohotie