Felix Miata wrote:

> Kris Steenhaut wrote:
 
> > The cardinal question hereby is: Does the mobo-bios-screen come up
> > _before_ or _after_ the display of the scsi-card messages?
 
> After, unlike any other motherboard I've ever touched.

Today I tried Abit AI7
http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/techspec.php?categories=1&model=147

This one enters motherboard BIOS before the SCSI messages display.
 
> > To repeat again, at the Epox mobo I'm speaking about scsi comes _before_
> > the mobo-bios-screen. And there is no way to set the boot-id at the scsi
> > card, the card refuses to show the specific menu.  At least, with the
> > quite a few Adaptecs I'd tried. All these card do a proper boot on other
> > systems.
 
> LSI Logic configuration program works like your Adaptec. Configuration
> program works, except that all SCSI devices are marked NO and
> unchangable in the BOOT CHOICE column.problem.
 
> However just thinking about this makes sense, as until the SCSI bus is
> scanned, the motherboard BIOS has no way to know what to put in its HD
> boot order menu. I added a 2nd SCSI disk to test. Whichever disk I
> select in this menu, SCSI or SCSI or IDE, the selected disk is the
> expected boot disk. As further test, I inserted Knoppix CD in the SCSI
> CD reader, and Knoppix booted.

The AI7 isn't as sophisticated. It's Phoenix-Award BIOS is pretty much
other plain Award BIOS'es. It differs from the Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro
in that since the SCSI bus doesn't get scanned first, when going into
the HD drive priority submenu, all that shows is the identified IDE HD0
and "bootable PCI add-in cards". Also unlike the Gibabyte, the Abit will
not automatically boot the SCSI CDROM unless CDROM has BIOS priority
over HD.
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