Don{ald} O. Woodall wrote:
 
>    at 10:25 AM, Steve McCrystal  said:
 
> >> The HP BIOS is: proprietary, limited, heavy handed. It sits
all over the Symbios BIOS on the
> >> 22801 and can't do half the things the Symbios BIOS can do.

>      If I just have a 22801 in the machine, at boot time, the the message
> is: "Press CTRL-A to enter the BIOS."  The
"CTRL-A" is the part I am
> stressing.
> 
>      Then I can low level form drives etc, the full range of the 22801's
> BIOS functions are available to me.
> 
>      The motherboard is a Tyan S1590 "AT" formfactor
motherboard and it
> BIOS is dated 1999.

On eBay I bought a SYM8951 or SYM8952 with an HP/Compaq sticker and
BIOS. I flashed to the latest LSI BIOS. NAICT, it works just like its
siblings that didn't come with a HP/Compaq sticker and BIOS.
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Father except through me."                        John 14:6 NIV

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Felix Miata  ***  http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/



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