Another option is to use a Smart host adapter which allows one to boot from the scsi bus or the ide bus. Most better adapters today support the feature. Bill Kristian Soerensen wrote: Kristian Soerensen wrote: > On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > All, > > > > I have a ol faithfull AT box which was put togather as a > > SCSI system. What I want > > to do now is keep the SCSI cdrom (and drives if possible), > > but add a (cheap) EIDE drive. Use the SCSI drives as the > > boot drive. I tried setting the EIDE as the slave. The > > computer still's doesn't reconize the SCSI harddrive. Any > > suggestions would be appriciated. > > It depends on the capabilities of the BIOS on the motherboard. On most > older PC's you can archive your goal by putting the EIDE disk on the > second EIDE channel, since nearly all motherboard BIOS's from that age > only looks at the first channel for boot devices. > > Unfortunately on a lot of controllers the second EIDE channel is of a > lower quality than the first, you will have to test with hdparm -tT to see > if you there's a performance difference. > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > The Linux Resource Exchange http://www.linuxrx.com > Kristian Elof Soerensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (+45) 45 93 92 02 > > -====---====---====---====---====---====---====---====---====---====---====- > to unsubscribe email "unsubscribe linux-admin" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > See the linux-admin FAQ: http://www.kalug.lug.net/linux-admin-FAQ/ -- Today is the beginning of all time. Today is the end of all time. Today is. Bill Ries-Knight Computer Services www.slip.net/~brk
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