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From: rlb@cs.odu.edu (Robert Lee Bailey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Booting off 1 hard drive and not the other
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Date: 20 May 89 03:23:31 GMT
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Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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In article <8275@pyr.gatech.EDU> ccastgw@pyr.gatech.edu.UUCP (GREG WILLIAMS) writes:
>
>I have two hard disks on my PC/XT clone.  One is an ST-238R and the
>other is an ST-251N (SCSI).  Currently my PC boots off the 238.  I
>would like to fix it so that I boot off the 251.  I have tried putting
>the jumper for the 238 in the Drive 2 position, but that only produced
>a 1701 error on bootup.  (Well, it did boot off the 251, but that's not
>quite how I want it...  :-)  )  I looked at the addresses for the 2
>drives using debug.  The 238 is at C800 and the 251 is at CA00.  I am
>assuming that whichever drive is at C800 is the one booted from.  Is
>this true?  If so, how do I switch the 2 addresses to boot from the 251?
>If I end up having to reformat both drives, that's okay because I do have
>current backups.
>-- 

Sure, just swap the cables between the two drives!

	Bob Bailey