PCI IDE Card

[Cyber Source]

That is exactly the card I had in mind and that is what I was trying to 
say all along. He would still need to change the boot sequence in his 
mobo and check scsi in the sequence or at least the option to look 
elsewhere if only say floppy/cdrom/ide0 are selected now.

Dave Andruczyk wrote:

>--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
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>>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.
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>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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