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<blockquote data-quote="Vipersan" data-source="post: 1015765" data-attributes="member: 325666">This is interesting ..Plugged in a pci to ide card and popped a bootable OS on it ..leaving the multiboot on the embedded IDE controller ...Data cable to each drive connected ..but power 5v/12v molex to one or t'other of the drives ..Obviously this isolates the unpowered drive in that it cannot be booted and cannot be seen by the active OS ..doing this allows me to effectively choose the bootable drive ..and effectively doubles my boot options.a DpDt switch would have to be installed to isolate the unrequired drive whilst selecting the required drive ..This would work..But has its drawbacks in that the system is 'aware' of the pci to IDE card ..and goes through it's own recognition and raid detection before falling through and timing out.So ..makes for a much longer boot time ..can I live with this ?well as a last resort then yes ..I'll explore other options first..Hope this made some sort of sense ..lolMy brain Hurts..;)This would do a better job and Much much quicker ...but no longer made sadly ..[MEDIA=youtube]6ZJz1VG5ebU[/MEDIA]Searched on Ebay ..but drawn a blank ..</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vipersan, post: 1015765, member: 325666"] This is interesting .. Plugged in a pci to ide card and popped a bootable OS on it ..leaving the multiboot on the embedded IDE controller ... Data cable to each drive connected ..but power 5v/12v molex to one or t'other of the drives .. Obviously this isolates the unpowered drive in that it cannot be booted and cannot be seen by the active OS .. doing this allows me to effectively choose the bootable drive ..and effectively doubles my boot options. a DpDt switch would have to be installed to isolate the unrequired drive whilst selecting the required drive .. This would work.. But has its drawbacks in that the system is 'aware' of the pci to IDE card ..and goes through it's own recognition and raid detection before falling through and timing out. So ..makes for a much longer boot time .. can I live with this ? well as a last resort then yes .. I'll explore other options first.. Hope this made some sort of sense .. lol My brain Hurts.. ;) This would do a better job and Much much quicker ...but no longer made sadly .. [MEDIA=youtube]6ZJz1VG5ebU[/MEDIA] Searched on Ebay ..but drawn a blank .. [/QUOTE]

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