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Date:      Wed, 09 Aug 2000 12:01:18 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Joel Bjork <u98jobj@stud.hh.se>
Cc:        hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: forcing which SCSI device to boot from
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.0.20000809120051.0299c4a0@marble.sentex.ca>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000809180122.u98jobj@stud.hh.se>
References:  <4.3.2.7.0.20000809111509.05e3b600@marble.sentex.ca>

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At 06:01 PM 8/9/00 +0200, Joel Bjork wrote:

>On 09-Aug-00 Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >
> > I have an Adaptec 2940 and a 3ware IDE raid card.  I have been booting from
> > the Adaptec, but when I put the 3ware card in, the drive insists on booting
> > from the 3ware.  Apart from making a boot floppy disk, is there any way to
> > force the drive to boot from the Adaptec ?
> >
> >       ---Mike
>Sounds like a BIOS issue, check the bootorder in the Bios, defaults are
>ususally: floppy, IDE, SCSI

Thanks, but I think the problem is that the BIOS sees the Adaptec and the 
3ware card BOTH as SCSI devices.

         ---Mike
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Mike Tancsa,                                      tel +1 519 651 3400
Sentex Communications                             mike@sentex.net
Cambridge, Ontario Canada                         www.sentex.net



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