Author: Stephen Davies Date: To: hampshire Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Mixing SATA and IDE disks
This is all together a far too common occurrence. IMHO it all goes down
to the BIOS producers who don't prove a facility to properly order
drives for booting.
Its not all that hard to do.
My two DELL SC1420's (3 yrs old) have a bios that allows you to order
the booting of devices. Not just down to HDD/CD/USB/LAN level but it
differentiates between PATA & SATA devices. It can be done.
Perhaps its time for Award & Phoenix to get off their complacent butts
and sort the bios out. The functions in the bios do not seem to have
changed much in the last 10 years.
