Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 23:06:20 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley <bsampley@best.com> To: Studded <Studded@dal.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE and SCSI drives not playing well together Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971227224934.9631A-100000@shell9.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <34A5A784.8843CB4B@dal.net>
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> I think I read somewhere in the archives that there is no way to make > two completely separate freebsd installations work on the same system, Actually I have found this statement to be false. Some motherboards which have Award BIOS have a BIOS setting which determines whether to boot from IDE or SCSI. Fortunately my motherboard (Asus P/I P55T2P4) supports this option. I have been able to 'chose' which version of FBSD to boot from for several months now as I migrate to a completely SCSI system. I have been able for several months to boot 2 different versions of FBSD from either my SCSI drives or from my IDE drives. I'll finally 'pull the plug' on the IDE drives when I finally have everything settled exactly how I want it. Check the BIOS on your motherboard for this option. If you only change this setting you can then boot from the SCSI drive and then manually mount the IDE drive(s) to migrate your data. Hope this helps. - burton -
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