** Reply to note from "Don{ald} O. Woodall"
 Sun, 05 Dec 2004   
17:21:32 -0500 
 
Don, 
    
> 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. 
 
Never mind! :^)  Your 22801 board is obviously quite different from either
of mine. The   
message I see is "Press CTRL-C to...." if the Symbios/LSI cardis
alone in the machine. I do   
get a CTRL-A message *first* if I have an old Adaptec card (2920, IIRC)
installed for my   
scanner, but then I see the the Symbios/LSI CTRL-C message. Pressing either
CTRL-A or CTRL-C   
at the approrpiate time works, it's the Symbios/LSI setup options that
don't work. I can, for   
example, format drives as you can, but I can't select which device to boot
from which used to   
work before Award FUBARed the BBS code.  
 
> the full range of the 22801's BIOS functions are available to me. 
 
Including selecting the boot device?  
  
> If I then go and add the HP combo Host Adapter NIC to the motherboard,
at boot up I see: 
> "Press F6 to enter the BIOS." And the BIOS one sees is an HP
"hacked",stripped, and ripped, 
> incomplete, incompetent BIOS. 
 
And you never see the Symbios message to enter it's configuration?  
 
It does stand to reason that if one puts a NIC on a SCSI HBA card, things
may get a bit wierd.   
Why in the world would you use such an animlal?  I think I'd use it for a
space age wall   
ornament. 
 
Regards, 
 
Steve 
 




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