SCSI + IDE RAID boot question

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TruckStuff
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SCSI + IDE RAID boot question

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If I have a SCSI controller and a IDE RAID controller in my system at the same time, and I tell the BIOS to boot from "SCSI", which one will it boot from?

I have an IDE RAID array right now and I just got my sweet new Cheatah X15. I have a pretty good amount of files that I would like to transfer from teh array to the SCSI (several gigs). If I get the system setup on the SCSI drive then put the RAID controller back in, which controller will the BIOS boot from? Right now, the system boots from "SCSI" (the raid controller).

I suppose I could just stick it in and find out, but I'd like to hae some sense of direction. :o
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bluewhale
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Post by bluewhale »

I'm not positive but believe anything you put into the system which is bootable ( you tell the SCSI controller to boot to itself/drive ID X ) will supercede anything in the MB BIOS. The few SCSI systems we run at work and the ones I've had in the past did not care what the CMOS was set to: the SCSI card would come first.
At least it's worked out that way. I've wondered what the SCSI setting was for on CMOS: presumed it was for built in RAID or some such.

Hope this helps.
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