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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news1.digex.net!sdd.comsat.com!usenet From: Brian McEntire <mcentire@sdd.comsat.com> Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Re: SCSI PCI host adapter Date: 28 Aug 1995 16:10:47 GMT Organization: COMSAT Corporation Lines: 11 Message-ID: <41spq7$72u@gazoo.sdd.comsat.com> References: <418r3m$9c6@trauma.rn.com> <419963$hst@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <41eadg$1ajc@news.mindspring.com> <41n8oa$nld@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <41nie1$97l@trauma.rn.com> <Pine.LNX.3.91.950826195446.1755A-100000@goliath.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: pebbles.sdd.comsat.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.03 9000/735) To: rwa@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de X-URL: news:Pine.LNX.3.91.950826195446.1755A-100000@goliath.csn.tu-chemnitz.de Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.periphs.scsi:36084 comp.os.linux.hardware:13958 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4954 comp.os.linux.setup:17843 >> But what if I want to boot of the SCSI drive connected to my NCR >> host adapter? My motherboard is an Opti PCI/VLB 100 Mhz. > >You need an SDMS SCSI BIOS, either on your SCSI controller or in your >system BIOS. Also you have to disable your IDE-Controller. Why must he disable the IDE? I am about to buy a SCSI disk to boot and run LINUX and would like to keep my 1.2 G EIDE drive in the system for DOS. Is this impossible?