- Feb 22, 2001
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I have the MSI Turbo - R setup and running pretty well right now. A pair of drives running RAID are my boot drives, on the IDE #3 and #4.
I noticed that I can turn off IDE #1 and #2 primary and master detection through the BIOS - normally it would kill the opportunity to boot from anything but a floppy, but in this case it's the Promise controller I'm using instead.
So if I do this (cut them out of the BIOS), does it hurt anything? I have a backup drive (old one) on there, along with a DVD player and a burner. Once Windows is up and running, it picks everything up like a champ.
Other than having access to the devices in DOS mode, any other reason to leave it in there?
(Windows changers the drive orders depending on wich way I set it up... If I disable the extra hard drive in the BIOS, it shows up in 98SE at the end of the alphabet, which I prefer. If I turn it on in the BIOS, it becomes drive D. Not a big deal, but I like the other way better.)
Running Windows 98SE, will be on 2000 dual boot very soon.
I noticed that I can turn off IDE #1 and #2 primary and master detection through the BIOS - normally it would kill the opportunity to boot from anything but a floppy, but in this case it's the Promise controller I'm using instead.
So if I do this (cut them out of the BIOS), does it hurt anything? I have a backup drive (old one) on there, along with a DVD player and a burner. Once Windows is up and running, it picks everything up like a champ.
Other than having access to the devices in DOS mode, any other reason to leave it in there?
(Windows changers the drive orders depending on wich way I set it up... If I disable the extra hard drive in the BIOS, it shows up in 98SE at the end of the alphabet, which I prefer. If I turn it on in the BIOS, it becomes drive D. Not a big deal, but I like the other way better.)
Running Windows 98SE, will be on 2000 dual boot very soon.
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