> > Hi all, > > > > I've been thinking of upgrading my root partition and moving it from the > > current IDE to a SCSI disc. I would buy a small-ish SCSI drive for the > > root and keep my /home on the existing IDE drive. Are there any > > complications on running both on the same PC? I seem to recall there > > being some issues in Windows at least? > > > > Thanks for any information, > > > > Tom Wesley > > There are no problems that I know of running a mixed SCSI/IDE > system. I've had > a Seagate SCSI 4gig drive that I've moved from system to system > since about > 1994 or so.
According to my own experience, this is what can cause you a lot of trouble: When you configure grub or lilo you have to indicate your boot device. Ex in grub your ide disk will appear as drive 0, because linux load the ide driver first. So it installs the bootloader on the ide disk. But at boot the scsi bios can override this (bios option) so it will try to boot on the scsi disk which has no bootloader installed -> FAIL. If you are lucky you might not even run into the problem, but if on reboot you have a lilo or grub error message, it's most probably what happened. Then swapping ide/scsi in your BIOS boot options could be the solution. Anyway get a boot floppy or cd before attempting anything... Aurelien -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
