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Date:      Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:29:05 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        urcf@fang.cs.sunyit.edu (Rodney C. Forbes)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SCSI woes.
Message-ID:  <199603072259.JAA03234@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199603071319.IAA03693@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> from "Rodney C. Forbes" at Mar 7, 96 08:19:55 am

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Rodney C. Forbes stands accused of saying:

> Is it possible to boot off a SCSI hard drive when an IDE is also in
> the system?

Yes.

> I just installed a 730MB SCSI hard drive that I would like to
> dedicate to FreeBSD.  I currently have a 540MB IDE that is being
> shared by DOS and FreeBSD.  I would like the IDE drive to end up
> dedicated to DOS/WINDOWS.  I would like to find a boot manager that
> would let me boot DOS off the IDE and FreeBSD off the SCSI.  I tried
> OS-BS and the one the comes with FreeBSD, and if they do support
> this, I must have missed something in the installation.  If you can
> help, I would appreciate it.

You don't say what happened when you tried the FBSD bootmanager.  Did it
list the second disk?  If not, do you have a SCSI controller with a 
BIOS?

> \'o.O'  urcf@fang.sunyit.edu (Rodney C. Forbes)

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