Re: Can I boot from SCSI disk on Adaptec 1540B controller?

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From: Rajesh Varia
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 00:00

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In article <30b64077.24245518@pubnews.demon.co.uk>
           nigel@openvms.demon.co.uk "Nigel Barker" writes:

> I bought a couple of second hand Adaptec 1540B SCSI controller a while ago &
> have been very pleased with the one providing me a way to hang some large old
> SCSI disks & a DAT tape off my PC.
> 
> I'm now building a new 486 from bits & have a decent, fastish 500Mb SCSI disk
> drive & a old & slow 100Mb IDE drive for the PC.
> 
> So... Can I set up to boot from the SCSI disk?
> -- 
> Nigel Barker - nigel@openvms.demon.co.uk
> 
Seeing as you say 486, sorry but the answer is no.  In general (i.e. in 
most cases) if you have both IDE & SCSI in the same system, you
will need to boot of the IDE drive.  

I say in general because I have heard that there are now BIOSs which allow 
you boot from SCSI in a mixed system, but these BIOSs are only available 
for Pentium systems.

--
Rajesh Varia     raj@c4rv.demon.co.uk

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