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From: Greg <docgreg@user1.channel1.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ASUS T2P4 IDE/SCSI mixed - ordering?
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 12:40:00 -0500
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I've just gone the other direction, adding the SC200 and
a 3.2 gig Quantum scsi drive to a system with a 2 gig Maxtor
IDE drive with 3 DOS partitions.

When the Award bios selected boot order is IDE/SCSI,
the boot order in DOS/WINx is the first DOS partition on 
the IDE is C:, then the DOS partition on the SCSI is D:,
followed by the remaing DOS partitions on the IDE as E:,
and F:.  

I have only run the system with one DOS partition on the SCSI,
so I cannot confirm that the boot order would be in the other 
situations.  

Why don't you just stick with SCSI drives ?   The price
of the Quantum Fireball was $385.  


Ralph Berg wrote:
> 
> Already running my system (DOS/WIN3.x/FreeBSD) with SCSI drive
> connected on SC200. Now I would like to add cheap big IDE drives.
> 
> If I change the scan order to (SCSI/IDE) , what will be the order
> first all SCSI and then all IDE's (visible for DOS/WIN3.x)?
> 
> Further, is the FreeBSD ide driver with bus-mastering? Should be for
> performance!
> 
> Anybody out there any experiences?!
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> please mail to ralph@first.gmd.de
> 
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