[NTLUG:Discuss] mixing scsi with ide

Scott Walters swalters at flash.net
Tue Oct 3 20:41:17 CDT 2000


At 04:43 PM 10/3/00 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
>
That didn't work for me.

>> >
>> >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. 
>>> >Stephen

This was the problem, thanks Stephen.  The scsi card config had
a setting for having the scsi card control the boot process or
the motherboard. Once I set this to off, the motherboard took
over and booted the scsi.

Scott




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