Simon
If both drives have same number then the computer doesn't know which
one to boot, so it doesn't boot, in my belief. That knowledge is
gained from putting 2x IGB 'Phil McGree' SCSI drives in a 7220 here
recently. Eventually my son's girlfriend's father (a Fujitsu Systems
Engineer) told
At 17:08 +0800 09/12/2001, Reg Whitely wrote:
If both drives have same number then the computer doesn't know which
one to boot, so it doesn't boot, in my belief. That knowledge is
gained from putting 2x IGB 'Phil McGree' SCSI drives...
But the original writer said that the drives are IDE,
Firstly, the BWs used the IDE interface for the hard drives, not SCSI -
IDE busses can only ever have two drives, a master and a slave. Compared
to SCSI, it is a terribly nonscalable interface that was born in the
overly price-competitive Wintel market to cut costs. I suppose IDE does
a decent
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