Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> Alan,
>
> Am I understanding you correctly? You have Linux on one of the SCSI drives
> and the /boot partition(s), the SWAP partitions, and the boot manager on
> the IDE drive?
>
> The reason I ask is because I'm considering building a new system and
> using SCSI drives in it for the sheer speed of them, and someone had
> mentioned to me that I would have to disable the IDE interfaces because
> otherwise the SCSI's won't boot.
[snip]
Mark....in my bios I have the second channel of the IDE
controller disabled , but that's because I have nothing hooked
up to it and I figured that some day I might need the extra
interrupt. So on the primary channel of the onboard IDE
controller I have a 1.5 gig IDE HD as master and a ls-120 as
slave.
On the Adaptec scsi controller on channel A I have two 18.2
gig and one 9.1 gig scsi drives as scsi 0, 1, & 2. On the
same channel I also have a zip drive as scsi 5 and a CD-ROM
burner as scsi 6. On scsi channel B, I have a flat bed
scanner as scsi 6.
I have a combo 3 1/2 & 5 1/4 floppy drive that is hooked to
the floppy controller. In the system bios the 3 1/2 floppy is
the primary boot device, the ls-120 is the secondary boot
device, and the IDE drive is third boot device. If the bios
detects a bootable CD in the scsi CD burner it overrides
everything and boots from that device.
So, as long as there's no discs in the 3 1/2 floppy or the
ls-120 and there's not a bootable CD in the burner then the
boot device is the IDE drive. It boots with BootMagic. I
configure BootMagic and do partitioning with Partition Magic
from the 200 meg dos (primary and bootable) partition running
DR-DOS 7.02 on the IDE drive.
Also on the IDE drive is an extended partition containing a
common Linux swap partition (for use by all Linux
installations on the system) and seperate boot partitions for
all of the Linux installations on the system (I make them just
one cylinder (about 7.8 megs) each.
By the way this system booted and ran just fine when I had it
set up more conventionally without the IDE hard drive and
booting from the scsi 0 drive. The ls-120 was the master on
the primary IDE controller then.
Alan
