Kris Steenhaut wrote:

>Mike O'Connor wrote:
>
>>Mrmazda73 wrote:
>>
>>>However, with SCSI card installed but no SCSI devices attached, the
>>>BIOS goes nuts. It won't see the IDE HD. Instead, if there is no
>>>bootable floppy, and even though the IDE HD is the first choice in
>>>that menu, I get "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS
>>>RETURN". Simply by attaching a SCSI HD, whether or not it has any
>>>partitions or formatting, it boots the HD selected in the BIOS.
>>>
>>Hi Felix,
>>What a cock-up!
>>
>No, it's genuinly the intention.
>
>>BIOS *Programmers*?!
>>
>Not the programmers, manufacturers and vendors. They want scsi out of
the World, and what we are seeing now is the first move. (-:
>

Hi Kris,
Serial-SCSI will be coming and will, like Serial-ATA, be faster than the 
Parallel predecessor.

I have found with my Adaptec AHA-2940AU, that if I go into the 
SCSISelect BIOS menus, when exiting, whether I have made any changes or 
not, the system completely restarts, and the AHA-2940U2W with earlier 
BIOS did the same, IIRC up to 2.57. Vesion 3.10 however, when hitting 
DEL, doesn't take effect until AFTER the SCSI BIOS has been processed, 
you can't access the MOBO BIOS until the SCSI-BIOS is complete. Same 
applies with the AHA-3940U2W, with an AMI SimpleBIOS on an ECS-K7S5A 
motherboard.  But it also has BBS-0 >> BBS-3 selections in addition to 
SCSI/IDE/CDROM/ZIP/Floppy etc. 

On this machine [Award 4.51PG modular BIOS] with one SCSI drive - 9GB - 
Cheetah 10K, and two IDE drives, both masters, the SCSI BIOS has *no* 
boot device set at all, but because I have the machine set to boot from 
"C only" [first EIDE HDD] in the Award BIOS, and that has System 
Commander doing the boot-selection, the [sole] Cheetah is one of the 
boot selections - unlike either of the the EIDE drives, with multiple 
boot selections for OS/2-eCS, the D: drive on the Cheetah has the 
AIC7870.ADD ahead of Danis506.ADD, whereas the EIDE-boot partitions all 
have the reverse. 

In LVM when booted from that [SCSI] D: drive, it is shown as Disk1, 
followed by the primary and secondary EIDE masters.  When booted to any 
of the EIDE partitions the primary master is DISK1, secondary master is 
DISK2, even though C: is on the secondary master not the first, and the 
SCSI is DISK3, and "D" is now "N", from LVM, or
"J" on a W4 boot that 
hasn't been setup to have the JFS drives visible.

Note: I also have IBM BM on all three drives, and if I select in System 
Commander to boot *any* of the three IBM BM's, all bootable choices off 
all three drives show up on the IBM BM menu! Because of the AIC7870.ADD 
giving all necessary functions that the Adaptec BIOS provides, it is not 
necessary to have the Adaptec BIOS loaded into RAM at all, not needed by 
HD-82h, or SONY SDT-5200 tapedrive or the Plextor CD-ROM.

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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