From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 29 19:25:28 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA27351 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 19:25:28 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA27346 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 19:25:24 -0800 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA09543; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 19:24:12 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199510300324.TAA09543@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Adding IDE to SCSI System.. To: root@homer.prahran.swin.edu.au (Root user on Homer) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 19:24:12 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Root user on Homer" at Oct 30, 95 01:24:01 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 541 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk SURE! just don't tell the bios about the IDE drive :) > > > Greetings to all! > > I have been pondering adding an IDE drive to my already SCSI system. > The hitch is, I can't think of anyway to add the IDE drive with out the > system bypassing the SCSI drive to boot off the IDE drive becasue the IDE > drive would have to be put in the BIOS as drive C:. > > The question is, is it possible to add an IDE drive to a system, whilst > still booting off the SCSI drive??????? > > Words of wisdom appreciated!! > > Aaron Elliott > >