[NTLUG:Discuss] mixing scsi with ide

[Stephen Klein]

I'll assume your SCSI controller is properly detecting the drive.

To boot off of a SCSI drive, make sure you have the drive ID set to 0 or
1, it won't boot of ID's 2-6.  You may need to turn on some features in
the SCSI controller's BIOS, you can usually get there by pressing Ctrl-A
(or similar) when the SCSI BIOS is detecting your devices at startup. 
Check the manual for the SCSI controller, it should explain it in more
detail for your controller's specific settings needed to boot off of a
SCSI drive.

As always, when dealing with SCSI, make sure you have proper
termination, all kinds of weird things can happen if your SCSI bus isn't
terminated correctly.

Hope this helps,
Stephen


Scott Walters wrote:
> 
> I'm running 2.2.13 with a BusLogic scsi controller and one scsi hard disk.
> I want to add an ide drive to the system.
> The problem I'm having is that the motherboard always wants to boot
> from the ide drive and not the scsi.  I set the boot order in the bios
> to SCSI,C,A  but that has no effect.  The ide drive is not formated
> so there is no bootable system on it.  I've tried making it a master
> and a slave.
> Other than booting from a floppy that transfers control to the scsi
> disk, is there a way I can auto boot the scsi drive and then later
> mount the ide?
> 
> Scott
> 
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