re q scsi ide i e or more hard drives in article apr news cs brandeis edu wbarnes sura net bill barnes writes has anyone successfully put both scsi and ide hard drives on the same system i would like to know as well since i just bought a mb seagate ide drive and want to add it to my computer a four year old gateway which currently has an mb seagate scsi drive the scsi controller is such that the docs told me not to specify it in the cmos setup i e both hard drive settings are listed as not installed and apparently the scsi controller works its wonders i wondering if this is a problem also i remember how when i helped my cousin install his second ide drive we had to define a master slave relationship for them do i need to do something similar here i am particularly interested in having the scsi as the boot drive same here any help would be appreciated since i intend to install this drive asap i d like to know what to do and what not to do before i start thanks i have been using both ide or mfm and scsi drives for years i have ide and scsi on one system and the other with ide scsi disk and scsi cdrom i currently using always in scsi card but i also have a future domain a western digital scsi card and i work with an adaptic before as i recall all these cards can support boot and floppy drive however to use with other controller ide mfm the boot drive has to be the ide or mfm you can not boot from the scsi if you have other controller in the system if you guys only have drives ide scsi just set up the ide in your cmos setup make sure you can boot from it then set up the scsi controller irq dma etc set the scsi drive to id just plug and play for all the cards i seen so far only if you have more than drives then you need driver for the third drive and so on if you have more question email me i will try to answer it good luck william
