From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 15:47:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA04318 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 15:47:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from originat.demon.co.uk (originat.demon.co.uk [158.152.220.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA04276 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 15:46:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from paul@localhost) by originat.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.9) id XAA01097; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 23:46:02 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199607032246.XAA01097@originat.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: IDE+SCSI? To: shovey@buffnet.net (steve hovey) Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 23:46:01 +0100 (BST) Cc: searle@longacre.demon.co.uk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "steve hovey" at Jul 3, 96 02:39:07 pm Reply-to: paul@netcraft.co.uk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to steve hovey who said > > On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, Michael Searle wrote: > > > Are there any problems with having a SCSI and IDE drives in the same > > computer under FreeBSD? The boot drive would be the SCSI, dual booting > > DOS/FreeBSD. There would be DOS and FreeBSD partitions on the IDE drive. > > I have mixed boxes the the boot drive must be the IDE I believe. If you disable the IDE drives in the BIOS then it'll boot from the scsi and FreeBSD will still find the IDE drives. I had this working on an old box of mine fine but you may have to fiddle around to get it to work. -- Paul Richards, Originative Solutions Ltd. Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work)