On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 22:09:23 +1000 Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> dbota wrote: > > > > Why do you have to have a slower drive than ATA for booting? Are we talking > > new drives on older controllers or drives running on an ATA 66/100 > > controller? > > That is not the problem. Most BIOSs provide no ability to select > beyond HDD0 .. HDD4, if that, for booting. Usually only HDD0 and > HDD1, ie booting is limited to IDE0. > Ron, while much of the above is true, where you are in error is that even that even though your add-on card is for ide devices it comes with its own bios and the system sees and addresses it as a scsi device. If in your system BIOS you set SCSI as first boot device,(it can be 2nd or 3rd if you wish to have floppy or cdrom as 1,2) then you can boot without problem from the first hd connected to the pci controller card. What you can not do is boot from multiple deices attached to the card, but only from the first bootable device attached. Charles
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