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Re: SCSI and IDE cohabitating???

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trevor Johnson)
Sun Dec 22 09:03:51 1996

Date: 	Sun, 22 Dec 1996 06:00:56 -0801 (PST)
From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
To: Steven Cherry <stevenc@future.dsc.dalsys.com>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <32BB090C.1A5A@dalsys.com>


> would like this situation to continue.  What do I need to do when I 
> install the IDE hard drive to make sure that the IDE drive does not 
> take over primary boot responsibility.  Is this possible?  Or will I

If your system has dual IDE interfaces (or a card which can be configured
as ide1 rather than ide0), using the secondary one, and leaving the
primary unused may do the trick.  I don't believe it's usual for the
system BIOS to try to boot off /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd. 
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Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>


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