Adding IDE to SCSI system

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:59:15 PDT 2004


On 02/09/04 17:03, Harry G wrote:
> Are there any warnings anyone would have for me about adding 2 IDE drives 
> with data on them to a PC with 2 SCSI-2 drives installed?
> 
> I need to get the data on them, then will use them for backups.

Not sure what kind of warnings you had in mind.  Assuming that your 
kernel has IDE support, they should just work.  Make sure that your BIOS 
isn't going to try to boot off of the IDE drives before the SCSI.

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