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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (392)	3/25/1998 8:54:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

>>Booting from SCSI...(converting from EIDE to SCSI) Sorry, only had time to skim the thread lately, so if this has been discussed I apologize for repetition. Most older (and not too darn old) bioses will not boot from a scsi disk if there is an IDE disk available on the primary IDE disk controller (IRQ 14). Many later bioses allow you to specify this (last year or two), but older than that and you're out of luck. Well, I guess the real statement is if there's not a specific bios setting for boot from scsi you're out of luck. A workaround, not very satisfactory to my mind, is to put the IDE drive(s) on the secondary controller. You can still put a CD on the primary. Then, according to what I've read, the system will boot from the scsi disk rather than from the secondary IDE. Sort of half-unplugging the IDE drive, I guess; but Windows should still be able to find the IDE drive once booted. I have only read this, not tried it myself, so this is strictly FWIW. Luck, Spots