On 9/9/02 12:32 PM Alan Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>If I remove the internal SCSI drive (address 0) and install an IDE
>card/drive, does the IDE take over the address 0 by way of setting the
>address on the IDE drive somehow ?
>I vaguely recall a master/slave type setting....
>Trying to make sure I know how to have the IDE function as the default
>HD.
>
>Thanks !
>
>Alan
>
>
Alan,
The addition of the IDE card simply adds another bus to the system. The
Mboard already has 2 SCSI buses on it, the internal at Bus O and the
External at Bus 1. Thus your original SCSI drive is at Bus 0, ID 0. Your
CD-ROM drive is at Bus 0, ID 3.
Once you add the IDE card you'll have SCSI Bus 2 available. (Yeah, I
know, it's IDE but the system sees it as a SCSI bus.)
When you add a drive to the IDE chain you'll now have a drive at Bus 2,
ID 0.
To make your system recognize the IDE drive as the default boot drive you
just have to go into your startup control panel and select it the IDE
drive as your startup drive (assuming you've installed a system on that
drive.)
The issue of Master/Slave is isolated to the IDE card. IDE works in
"channels", with a master and a slave device capable of being supported
on each channel. There is a jumper on the IDE drives to select Master of
Slave mode. The VST card in my J700 has 2 channels, thus up to 4 devices
available.
The Master drive on Channel 1 shows up as SCSI bus 2, ID 0.
The Slave drive on Channel 1 shows up as SCSI bus 2, ID 1.
The Master drive on channel 2 shows up as SCSI BUS 2, ID 2.
The Slave drive on channel 2 shows up as SCSI BUS 2, ID 3.
Hope this helped more than confused you!
Joe
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