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color=#0000ff size=2>Hi,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>If I got anything else it would have to be a PCI card
because I don't think I have any free IDE on this mobo, can't remember but it
has inbuilt SATA and I use a SATA drive on it. It does also have an
inbuilt RAID controler. Will either have to look at the book or open the
machine up. The IDE is currently taken up by the DVD and DVDR
drives.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Andrew.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B>
herefordshire-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:herefordshire-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>EdwardFW@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> 21 January 2005 13:37<BR><B>To:</B>
herefordshire@mailman.lug.org.uk<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Herefordshire]
VectorLinux Finally installed !! <BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2 PTSIZE="10">Greetings and
thanks to all for welcoming me and tolerating the increase in the group's
average age and its decrease in average intelligence and Linux ability<BR><BR>Re
Andrew's desire for speed and for seperate drives, I have had great benefits
both re bootable operating system drives and back-up and generally shifting lots
of MB about, from using caddies - but I am still on PATA, no SATA. There must be
people on the internet who have tried SATA though.<BR><BR>I too like the idea of
seperate drives for seperate operating systems and have been facing up to hard
drive technology stopping me from using caddies. But I thought you Linux people
- we Linux people - were always booting to and from all sorts of things and
places. Can't the loader thing be configured to ignore drives etc?<BR><BR>Or -
on one PC I have a normal IDE as the main boot drive. Second "drive" is a
Promise PCI RAID card which pretends to be a SCSI card but has (in my case two)
IDE drives connected to it. Using RAID 0 this gives a fast drive. I have also
loaded W98 onto it and can boot to it by changing the boot sequence in the BIOS
to SCSI, A, C. <BR><BR>Andrew if you had a similar PCI RAID card setup or
a (genuine) SCSI drive on a SCSI card (or off the motherboard if it has SCSI on
it) your BIOS would surely allow you to change the boot sequence. <BR><BR>If the
BIOS would also allow you to disable the SCSI / card, or the IDE, so the
relevant drives could sit there not recognised when you booted to the other O/S
would this be a solution? Or <BR><BR>I haven't looked lately but simple raid
cards should not cost much now or do you have it on your
motherboard?<BR><BR>Advantage - files and images could be swapped depending on
filesystem recognition. <BR><BR>Disadvantages - the drives you had disabled the
recognition of would be still be spinning and thus ageing, and using power and
creating heat.<BR>(On my system both drives are all part of the working boot,
swap file, backup, day to day working)<BR>And, possibly, using up a PCI slot.
<BR>And having to nip into the BIOS to make a change but this is quick once you
get practiced at it. <BR><BR></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>