Adding IDE to SCSI system

Harry G hg57
Mon May 17 11:59:16 PDT 2004


On Mon February 9 2004 08:21 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

I was going to boot from disk, then adjust grub accordingly.

Thanks folks!

Harry G



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