My 29030C Ultra narrow is bootable but I've never seen anything about the
2940UW regard bootability. Given how difficult it is to get any info from
adaptec that's not obviously on their web site, I would just plug the sucker
into your box, connect a cdrom drive (a scsi cdrom drive 8-)), fire the
sucker up and put the mandrake 7.2 cd in while it boots and see if it
recognizes it. It will be most obvious if it works.
Tom Berkley
PS
If you get a cd burner, most definitely pay the extra bucks and get a scsi.
You will be most happy with scsi even though your wallet suffered a little.
Anthony Russello wrote:
> 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
>
> There's plenty of semicolons to go around
