From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 30 01:14:34 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA13772 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 01:14:34 -0800 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA13718 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 01:12:56 -0800 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA04015; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 10:11:11 +0100 Message-Id: <199510300911.KAA04015@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: Adding IDE to SCSI System.. To: root@homer.prahran.swin.edu.au (Root user on Homer) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 10:11:10 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Root user on Homer" at Oct 30, 95 01:24:01 pm From: Christoph Kukulies Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1001 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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!! I don't know what OS you have on the IDE drive but you can at any time disable the IDE drive from the BIOS (CMOS) and boot FreeBSD off the SCSI disk while still seeing the IDE disk from FreeBSD. I don't know of a bootloader that allows booting from more than one controller - not sure though, if OSBS2BETA allows for this. Does the SCSI Bios allow for installing a SCSI drive at SCSI ID !=0 being installed as drive D: ? Not sure at the moment. > > Aaron Elliott > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de