On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 18:40:35 -0500 Wayne Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 11:14 AM 3/26/2006, Gaffer typed: > >Yes ! That happens because the bios on the SCSI card is read before the > >bios on the mainboard. > > It has never been on the systems that I've used SCSI in before. I've > always gotten the mainboard bios posting on screen before the SCSI > card bios posted to the screen but fortunately the SCSI cards bios > always let me turn off the bootable drives so it's been a none issue. > > >Some bios will let you change that behaviour ! > > Haven't seen that either but that certainly doesn't mean a whole lot > as there are lots of things I've not seen. If you want to see things > you can't anywhere else go a bar in Tijuana, MX. ;-)
This Gigabyte BIOS does let you set the order of the controllers (excluding IDE). SCSI then SATA or SATA then SCSI. But like you said, the main board BIOS starts first & sets the IDE before the others. I'm pretty sure that's normal. > > > ----------+---------- > Wayne D. Johnson > Ashland, OH, USA 44805 > <http://www.wavijo.com> -- C L Shaw <>< <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Today is a moment for you to clip yet another strand from the rope of earth, so that when he returns you won't be tied up. -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
