Louis wrote:
 
> On my Supermicro if I want it to boot to CD I have to go into the boot
> menu of the BIOS and have the Boot to Addon Card listed first.

Does your system have only SCSI for CD? What is your HBA?

> If there are any IDE peripherals or SATA drives it will bypass the
> CD if this is not done. Without IDE drives it will boot to SCSI even
> if not listed first.

This is absolutely standard legacy behavior. Before any BIOS ever had
any boot from SCSI option this was totally expected behavior. The sole
problem the boot from SCSI option was created to solve was to allow
booting from SCSI when IDE drives, or their antique forerunners, MFM,
RLL & ESDI, were present.
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