Wont Boot From Second Drive.Txt

Here is the summary of the answers I got for the question I asked on December 18th in Info-Mac Volume 13 Issue 176: |I have just added a second internal disk drive in my Macintosh, and would |like to make it the boot disk while keeping the old disk still bootable in |case of problems. Infortunately, whatever I do, the Mac insists to boot |from the old disk. |- Why? What can I do? The short answer: ================= What worked for my purpose was to exchange the SCSI ids of the disks, putting the new disk at target 0, and the old target 0 disk at target 1. Now I can use Startup Disk to choose whichever of these two disks as boot disk, and at the next restart the mac boots from the chosen disk. The reason it works has to do with the fact that the Mac tries longer to boot