Subject: RE: adaptech 2940U2W support in 1.4.2
To: None <henry@irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp>
From: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/24/2000 11:59:33
> I have Windows98 booting from an ide hdd, and I'd like to have
> NetBSD set up to boot from a scsi drive I have attached to an
> Adaptech 2940U2W in the same machine.  Right now I have the Host
> Adapter BIOS disabled because whenever I enabled it, Windows98
> seemed to get confused about what the letter (label?, i.e., e: f:
> or g:) for the scsi hdd, a cdrom attached to the same scsi
> adaptor, and an ide zip drive should be.
>
> Question is, can I leave the adapter bios turned off, and use the
> motherboard cmos settings to determine which drive, ide c: or scsi,
> boots up?  Sorry for the newbie question.  TIA for help.

I suspect not -- the bootloader and AFAIK the kernel are both loaded
using BIOS disk I/O calls.

- H=E5vard