Re: Can I mix SCSI & IDE drives?

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From: Simon Child
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 00:00

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Graeme P Eldred wrote in message ...

>>Is the second ide controller enabled in bios?
>>
>Having at last managed to enter Setup (Thanks, Mike T), I don't think
>so.  The CD would be an HDD?  No HDDs enabled - the HDD is SCSI, which
I
>now know installs after BIOS.  So, I enable the second HDD as the CD?
>Is it that simple?


Just about.

You need to enable the ide controller itself, perhaps somewhere like
"integrated peripherals" in CMOS setup, and then in the standard
settings you need to enable autodetect for the appropriate drive.

Not sure about fitting an ide CD drive in a system that boots from scsi,
but I wonder whether if you put it as master on the first cable it will
try to boot from it??

So perhaps put it on the second cable/controller (making sure that you
have enabled the second ide controller also), and enable autodetect for
the third HD if master, fourth HD if slave (deduct 2 from these values
is you only have one cable/conroller).

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