PCI IDE Card

Mark T. Valites valites at geneseo.edu
Fri Mar 26 11:36:55 EST 2004


On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Cyber Source wrote:

> It will work, you would first install the card and hook up your drive,
> boot the system with the OS cd (I think I recall you have a Mandrake 9?
> box), It will give you options to reload the boot loader, etc. Do that
> and when it reboots, go into your BIOS and change the boot loader so
> that the option of SCSI is chosen before any of the onboard controllers
> (IDE0 and the like). When you tell a BIOS to boot to SCSI, it doesn't
> have to be SCSI, it is really just telling it to look for a boot
> record/device other than the onboard stuff.

Do some googling to make sure your BIOS supports this.

Also check the Documentation in the kernel source to see if you can boot
off a PCI controller - I'm fairly sure you can not.


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Mark T. Valites
Unix Systems Analyst
CIT - SUNY Geneseo
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