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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (2914)	10/13/1998 11:00:00 PM
From: Clarence Dodge	Read Replies (1) of 14778

ZP I have no doubt that the Abit (Award bios) will allow you to select boot drives with the bios. I don't doubt it either given list of boot options you posted from the Abit manual. I emailed back to Abit asking how their answer to my original email (set the jumpers) was the only correct answer in lite of that manual passage which I included in the email. Its probably a misunderstanding of my question, like Dave said. With one IDE drive and one SCSI drive the choice could be made in the mobo bios. I have decided to go with the overwhelming voice of the thread and use two IDE drives (primary master/KOT slave), an external magnetic removable, SparQ maybe, and an internal tape(master) and cd-rom(slave). For example if NT has to be configured differently when it resides on a SCSI drive vs an IDE drive the cloning process may not work. My latest thinking on the KOT concept is to use two matched drives...thereby avoiding some of the unknowns. I intuitively agree. Thats another good reason here to use 2 IDE instead ( lessening the unknown complexities.) With two matched drives , do you mean size as well? How would multiple clones of the primary fit onto a same size KOT unless Daves partitions were used on the primary and only the OS partition gets cloned? Relying on the other backups to restore non-cloned material.? Thats a question BTW. You likely have something else in mind to make same sized drives work. I will try installing NT on one of my IDE drives next. If all goes well I will see if it clones to a SCSI drive. Did you figure out why NT couldn't find the SCSI drive? That would be a neat trick to get Nt onto the ScSi thru the back door via a cloned image. Good luck Clarence

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