Don{ald} O. Woodall wrote:

>In , on 01/02/2005 
>   at 09:12 PM, "Mike O'Connor"  said:
>
>Hi Mike
>
>>Hi Don,
>>    
>>
>>Knowing nothing about LSI whatsoever - they appear to be the
inverse of Adaptec, where the default BOOT SCSI-ID is 0 [zero], or is that
a selectable thing to count down/up from the highest/lowest SCSI-ID on each
buss?
>>    
>>
>
>     That is a selectable thing.  You can start at zero and go up. Or
you can start at 15 and go down.  You can't select a specific ID number to
boot from.  It scans the entire bus starting low or high.
>
>  
>
that's a pain - you have to open the case to change the drives' IDs in 
the case of having several bootable SCSI partitions on different 
physical disks, or e.g. have a customizable boot manager like System 
Commander installed that allows you to boot a specific partition on any 
physical disk irrespective of which disk the SCSI-BIOS decides is 
bootable.  At least with Adaptec you can select whic one you want to be 
the boot device.

>>What options can you change after pressing CTRL-C at the SCSI BIOS
>>screen?
>>    
>>
>
>     That comes later, after I can finally put myself back to bed AND
go to sleep.  On my third get up, I finally put on my shoes and went to the
basement.
>
>     I accomplished 2 wonderful things.
>
>     1.  I got down on my hand and knees, took all the cards out
>         of the tower case, and found that the motherboard is an
>         FIC VA-503+
>
>     2.  I finally figured out why I was unable to boot the computer
>         with the LSI 21040 in it.
>
>         It is going to BOOT from BUS 0 (zero).  I had an 8-bit
>         LSI 860 on bus 0.
>
>         Removing the 8-bit 860, putting the hard drives on BUS 0,
>         connecting the CD-ROM to channel 2/B, ie bus 1
>
>         AND it booted
>
>          The name of this file is:  Va503p
>
>           The motherboard is a FIC VA-503+
>
>
>Award Modular BIOS v4.60PGA, An Energy Star Ally
>Copyright(C) 1984-98, Award Software, Inc.
>
>Version 1.15JE36
>
>AMD K6(tm)-2/506 CPU Found
>Memory Test :  131072k OK
>
>Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A
>Copyright(C) 1999, Award Software, Inc.
>
>LSI LOGIC CORP. Symbios SCMS (TM) V4.0 PCI SCSI BIOS, PCI REV. 2.0, 2.1
>Copyright 1995-2000 LSI LOGIC CORP.
>PCI-4.19.00
>
>Adapter configuration may have changed, reconfiguration is suggested!
>Press Ctrl-C to start Symbios Configuration Utility...
>
>HBA ID LUN VENDOR   PRODUCT          REV   SYNC WIDE INI13  CYL/ HD/SEC
>--- -- --- -------  ---------------- ---  ----- ---- ----- ------------
> 0  15  0  IBM      DDRS-34560W      S99H  40.0  16   BOOT  555/255/63
> 0  14  0  IBM      DDRS-34560W      DC1B  40.0  16    81h  555/255/63
> 0   7  0  LSILOGIC 53C875           0001 160.0  16
> 1   7  0  LSILOGIC 53C875           0001 160.0  16
> 1   6  0  TOSHIBA  CD-ROM XM-6201TA 1037
>
>* This device should support 160 MB/s when the driver is loaded.
>
>     Now, may be I can go back to bed and get some more sleep.
>
>     This is much quicker with only 2 buses and fewer devices connected
to it than my "Main" computer and the 22801.
>  
>
sounds good!

>     Thanks
>

Hi Don,

As you already said - wonderful!

Now go and get some sleep!
i'm going to do the same as soon as I finish responding to outstanding 
personal e-mails from last year!

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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