[NTLUG:Discuss] mixing scsi with ide

[Randall Gibson]

I think this is more of a old BIOS problem. Mine acts the same way. I got
around it by making the whole IDE drive a extended partition.

On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 15:54:02 Scott Walters wrote:
> Sorry for the confusion, let me try to clarify my problem.
> I have a linux sytem running using the scsi card and drive.
> The system boots fine from the scsi disk (id 0, and terminated).
> 
> I now want to add an ide drive for some additional storage.
> The problem is that the motherboard keeps trying to boot off
> the new ide drive.
> 
> Are you saying there is some setting in the scsi card setup
> to block booting from an ide drive?
> 
> Again, I have no problems booting from the scsi drive when the
> ide drive is not attached.  Its only after I connect up the ide drive
> does the scsi drive stop booting.
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> At 03:34 PM 10/3/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >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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