Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel

Riley Williams (rhw@MemAlpha.CX)
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 17:58:17 +0100 (GMT)


Hi Lee.

>> Rogier (or somebody) mentioned that there are other cases that
>> are nasty, like having a SCSI CD and ide disks. I bet there are,
>> although I've never seen those kinds of problems with any
>> regular off-the-shelf kind of hardware (I don't actually see why
>> that combination should be a problem, because I _have_ installed
>> the other way around with the CD on IDE and the disks on SCSI,
>> and the driver issue should be the same - at least the
>> distributions I've tried had teh ide driver even on the scsi
>> kernels).

> I just got through installing RH6 on a machine that had SCSI
> CDROM and IDE drives and had no problems what so ever. The
> issue would be wether or not the BIOS allows for booting from
> the SCSI CDROM, right?

The BIOS allows booting from CD, and it was RH6 that we were trying to
install, so if you can advise what the procedure is, I would be very
happy to follow it...

Best wishes from Riley.

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