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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: Questions -- using IDE with SCSI, and how to add more swap space?
To: d_burr@ix.netcom.com (Donald Burr)
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 11:24:36 -0800 (PST)
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> 
The simpel answer is:

(drum roll)
DON'T TELL THE BIOS ABOUT THE IDE DRIVE

then it'll just ignore it..
(of course if you allow it to do an 'auto configure' on a new machine it'll
find it, but who trusts computers?)


> Now, my problem is this: I heard that you can have both IDE and SCSI in 
> the same system, but if you do, the computer will *ALWAYS* boot from the 
> IDE.  This is not what I want, since this would complicate things.  
> BUT... maybe the system only tries booting from the PRIMARY IDE, and 
> leaves the secondary (if it's even there) alone.  I don't know.

> 
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