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Re: SCSI and IDE cohabitating???

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Utt)
Sun Dec 22 15:08:22 1996

Date: 	Sun, 22 Dec 1996 12:05:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Sean Utt <sean@northwest.com>
To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
cc: Steven Cherry <stevenc@future.dsc.dalsys.com>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu,
        linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961222055627.356F-100000@ppp12.csudh.EDU>



The quick way is to not put the drive in the bios.  Linux will still
detect it when the kernel probes for drives.

sean

On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Trevor Johnson wrote:

> 
> > 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. 
> ___
> Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
> 
> 


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