Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] adding IDE drive to scsi system
From: Hannu Krosing (hannu@tm.ee)
Date: Fri Sep 24 1999 - 16:24:50 EDT
Wagner One wrote:
>
> The linux machine on which I run netatalk is exclusivly scsi and I would
> like to add an IDE drive to the mix (cheaper, bigger, etc.). I installed it
> this morning on the primary IDE bus set as "device 0 master" and immediatly
> the machine attempted to boot from the IDE drive instead of the scsi drives
> (which are on a 2940). I poked around in the bios setup a little, but didn't
> see anything right away as to how to force it to boot from another device. I
> assume this is the way it has to be done or is there another workaround?
Just tell the BIOS that you have NO ide disks - it will boot off your
2940
and then Linux will find your IDE disks. At least this is how I do it
:~)
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Hannu
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