Maybe Last Question :-)

[lassie]

What does everyone think will happen when I connect up my old IDE 30gig drive ??
I now (as we all know by now) have my SCSI card running my 9gig cheetah and it's great.

I want to use the old 30giger IDE for storage and what-ever (it has a lot of stuff on it I want to keep)...BUT it has (if connected alone) w2k & w98se running as a dual boot.

When I put the scsi card back in connected to the scsi drive (it's got w2k running on it) along with the old boy ide drive...is all H*** going to break loose OR will it recognise the scsi (w2k) and all will be cool ??

Thanks as alwas
Lassie

 

[le3tplaya]

well what does it try to boot from first?

 

[lassie]

I don't have both connected yet (at the same time).

If I have the scsi connected, it boots to w2k.

disconnect it and

if I have the old IDE connected, it dual/boots to either w2k or w98se.

Lassie

 

[Snoop]

It shouldnt be a problem, just make sure in the BIOS, it has boot from scsi device before IDE.

 

[Nevo]

It should work fine.

Make sure, as others said, that the MoBo boots off the SCSI card before the IDE card.

Windows may reletter the drives. W2K will allow you to set the drive letters the way you want them to from the MMC. (Actually, I highly doubt that W2K will reletter your drives, as W2K associates drive letters with disk signatures. I think Win98 assigns letters as the drives are enumerated, so you might have to force the order in which the drives are enumerated and I don't know how to do that.)

In any case, you're not looking at catastrophic data loss. If it doesn't work, unplug the drive and you'll be fine.