[NTLUG:Discuss] hardware question - ide/scsi

[kbrannen@gte.net]

Kelledin wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 December 2002 11:05 am, Fred James wrote:
> 
>>Got a machine with a couple of SCSI drives in it already - any
>>problem in adding an IDE drive to the mix?
> 
> 
> All the drives should work together without problems, but 
> actually determining which drive to boot from could be a hassle.  
> The BIOS drive order will get changed, and some system BIOSes 
> will not let you boot from a SCSI drive if an IDE drive is in 
> the system.  Generally this is not a problem unless you want to 
> re-use the current boot record on the drives.
> 

Correct, been there, done that, gave in and put the boot partition on the IDE 
drive... :-/

If you don't want to change booting from the SCSI drive, there is another 
alternative--maybe.  I recently saw an article on SlashDot about an 
IDE-to-SCSI interface card to stick on the back of IDE drives and lets you 
attach it to the SCSI chain, so all your drives will appear to be SCSI, and 
thereby preserve your boot options/order.  I think its price was something 
like $100; reviews were mostly favorable, but a few people reported problems.

HTH,
Kevin