PCI IDE Card

[Dave Andruczyk]

--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> ok, this seems to be going on and on now. Jason's wanted to know if his 
> mobo could boot off of an ide controller other than the onboard mobo's. 
> I was pointing out how to get the mobo to boot from the add-on ide 
> controller. If the only drive he has working will be on this add-on ide 
> controller card, the mobo has to take him there first, before 
> Lilo/Grub/whatever takes over. The mobo has to know where to look for 
> the boot record (Lilo/Grub) first, so if his mobo has no scsi setting in 
> the boot sequence, then his mobo will not see the drive and the 
> Lilo/Grub therein.

If the PCI IDE controller has a BIOS (like a promise Ultra 100 pci controller)
it CAN boot from it...


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Dave J. Andruczyk

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