Hi Wayne n all,

On 26 March 2005 07:25am Wayne Johnson wrote:
Doesn't the SCSI card have it's own BIOS ? My 2940U2W does & once I 
set that to bootable it doesn't matter what I have the boot sequence 
set at in the mombos bios therefore I would have to turn that off 1st 
before I start messing with the rest of it.


On Monday 27 March 2006 00:01, Wayne Johnson 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.

Am I misunderstanding here ! 

If you set the SCSI to be the boot device, it is able to overide the 
mainboard bios settings because its bios is read first !!

> 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. ;-)
>
> ----------+----------
>     Wayne D. Johnson
> Ashland, OH, USA 44805
> <http://www.wavijo.com>

FWIW.  I have a Gigabyte mainboard with an Award bios !  It too will let 
me change the order of boot !  But only if I turn off SCSI card boot 
capability.  When I do this I can choose which type of device I want to 
boot with first.

-- 
Best Regards:
     Derrick.
     Pontefract Linux Users Group.
     plug at play-net.co.uk

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