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Re: [PLUG] fdisk /MBR in linux?
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nevermind. i figured out that i should disable the bios on the
controller. duh!
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 16:10, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> Anyone know what the linux equivalent of that is?
>
> I just added a new scsi device to a box that has 3 scsi disks in a sw
> raid config. + 2 IDE disks on an external IDE controller (one of these
> is the boot disk). In order to add the device, I had to change the
> controller with one that had a 50 pin interface. However, this
> controller is bootable- where the other one was not. One of the scsi
> disks had at one time been the boot drive for a linux system, so I
> suspected that the the boot flags were active on the scsi disks. I
> toggled them - but still it won't boot from IDE drives. So now I think
> there might be residual boot loader stuff in the MBR.
>
> Is there any way to get this controller to ignore the disks as bootable
> drives? or should i just buy an adapter and use the old controller? It's
> an AHA-2940 controller.
>
> Thanks
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W. Chris Shank <chris.shank@acetechgroup.com>
ACE Technology Group
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