Author: Sean Gibbins Date: To: stephen.davies, Hampshire LUG Discussion List CC: Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Mixing SATA and IDE disks
Stephen Davies wrote: > 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.
In fairness*, I have encountered these issues in the past and then
corrected them by doing precisely what you have alluded to, i.e. going
into the BIOS and ordering the drives. Had I done that initially I would
have saved myself a minor headache.
