> I assume you mean "Does NetBSD support an IDE drive concurrently with a
> SCSI drive", and the answer is yes (AFAIK).

Absolutely YES.  We do this on almost every machine we have (or maintain).

> We did that for a bit at IAW
> when a SCSI crahed and we only had an IDE for replacement.  I think the
> only limitation is that you have to boot from the IDE (becase of the BIOS
> I believe). 

No, you can boot from the SCSI disk if your bios supports the SCSI card.
I disabled my IDE disk in bios and now the system boots off the SCSI
disk.  NetBSD still recognizes the IDE disk, so I can still use it
normally.  I have a NCR810 SCSI card which is supported by my bios.

Never had problems when using the IDE and SCSI disk simultaneously..

  -jm


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