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UNIX and IDE Drives, problems?

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by earlkaplan

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Does anyone have any knowledge about UNIX (SCO, in particular) not functioning well with IDE (or EIDE) drives?

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by computechie

I've run SCO and almost every other flavor of UNIX variants, and never had a problem using them on a IDE drive. You didn't give any information on what is not working. The installation or is it just being flaky? Post a little more info and I'll try and help.

by earlkaplan

Bears out my own thinking and experience. A software vendor was telling a client otherwise and I needed backup.

by cavedweller

SCO OpenServer runs well on IDE disks. If you mix IDE and SCSI disks you must boot off the IDE. If you boot off SCSI the IDE drives cannot be accessed. SCO used to have some justification for this behavior on their website.

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