On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> All,
>
> I have a ol faithfull AT box which was put togather as a
> SCSI system. What I want
> to do now is keep the SCSI cdrom (and drives if possible),
> but add a (cheap) EIDE drive. Use the SCSI drives as the
> boot drive. I tried setting the EIDE as the slave. The
> computer still's doesn't reconize the SCSI harddrive. Any
> suggestions would be appriciated.
It depends on the capabilities of the BIOS on the motherboard. On most
older PC's you can archive your goal by putting the EIDE disk on the
second EIDE channel, since nearly all motherboard BIOS's from that age
only looks at the first channel for boot devices.
Unfortunately on a lot of controllers the second EIDE channel is of a
lower quality than the first, you will have to test with hdparm -tT to see
if you there's a performance difference.
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