Hey everybody,
I have recently come into aquisition of an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter.
I'll most likely be making use of this with my next installation of
Mandrake. Until then, everything works with my old PCI SCSI card in there
now.
My main concern is that I intend to completely remove IDE from the system
and replace it all with a collection of SCSI har ddrives and a CD-ROM
drive. But will I be able to boot from that SCSI CD-ROM drive?
Currently, in one of the older servers I picked up (A dell 4100/200) I
noticed that during bootup, it actually pops up a message stating that a
bootable CD was found in the CD-ROM drive. It's using an onboard adaptec
7880 SCSI adapter.
I am curious to know if I would receive the same message while bootup
detects SCSI devices, prior to the installation of Linux.. What I'm
hoping is this;
Boot machine
detects SCSI devices and powers them up
detects the CD-ROM drive
detects that there is a bootable CD in the CD-ROM drive
begins installation
What are the odds of this occuring on this 2940 UW card?
Thanks
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