upgrading ide->scsi+ide

[Robert Waldner <Waldner@KPNQwest.at>]

Hi!

Since xmas comes I thought this might be a good time to play santa 
claus with me and putting in a scsi-disk for all except my mp3s, which 
will continue to reside on the already built-in ide-drive.

Now there are a few questions bothering me:
- what do I have to be aware of to be able to boot from the scsi-drive 
  rather than the ide one?
- what´s the best way of transferring all the data from the various 
  partitions from the ide-drive? I guess integrating the scsi-drive, 
  booting from diskette, partitioning, formatting, moving the data
  (like in the harddisk-upgrade-howto to be sure no permissions etc
  mangle up), but what about /dev ? Then run lilo, all´s fine? Can´t be 
  that easy...
- I have a NCR53c810 scsi-2 controller already serving a cd-recorder 
  and a tapedrive. From all I´m able to dig up it _should_ be able to 
  run a IBM DNES-309170 (IBM states a "Ultra SCSI, Fast, Fast&Wide" 
  interface&connector) drive, but what about reality?

TIA,
&rw