Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1919 mails)

[marc_bouron@xxxxxxxxxxx (Marc Bouron)]

>Hello folks,
>
>There is _NOTHING WRONG_ with running SCSI and IDE in the same box.  
I'm
>doing it on this very box.  I have done this for at least 10 years.  
IDE
>will boot first if you have older BIOS, if newer, you can select where
>your system will boot from.  OR, you can boot from the IDE and have 
SCSI
>drives on line.  This is an excelent what to run LINUX if you hate 
having
>to make a special driver at boot time for your system. Just load it to 
an
>IDE system then and the SCSI drives.  IF you can't do this there is
>something wrong with the hardware or the seatback to keyboard 
interface.

I'd have to second this.  I bought a PC with Win95 pre-installed on 
an IDE drive.  Subsequently, I installed a SCSI card and drive and
put Linux on it.  LILO installed itself into the IDE MBR.  Works
like a dream.

--Marc.

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