PCI IDE Card

[Cyber Source]

So have I. I mentioned the fact that he should check the boot sequence 
to eliminate the possibility of boot failure. I have in the past had 
systems hang when they can't find a boot record from where the BIOS has 
told it to look.

Dave Andruczyk wrote:

>Even on old systems that don't have an "alternate" boot choice, by inserting a
>card with a bootable bios the system should be able to boot off of it.  BIOS's
>like this include SCSI and PCI IDE cards, they typically use the INT13
>extension to do so...  So even on systems that do NOT have the choice to boot
>from SCSI/"other", inserting a card with a bootable bios should allow the
>system to boot from devices plugged into that new controller..  (I have done it
>many times in the past, on systems as old as 486/33's)
>
>
>--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
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>>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.
>>
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>Dave J. Andruczyk
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