mrmazda73 wrote:

>Kris Steenhaut wrote:
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>>Does the bios still have a "boot from scsi option"?
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>Here's one that at first glance doesn't: Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro
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>>http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_Spec_GA-8IPE1000%20Pro.htm
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>This has the generally familiar old Award BIOS. Among the many devices
>available to choose from for first, second & third choices, SCSI is
>not among them. 
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>However, there is a separate submenu for designating which HD to boot
>from. Initially, there are only two choices, 1-the IDE HD it found
>already, and "bootable PCI add-in cards". After installing a SCSI card
>and HD, a third choice "SCSI-0: ID08" appeared.
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Yes, yes, I know.

The cardinal question hereby is: Does the mobo-bios-screen come up 
_before_ or _after_ the display of the scsi-card messages?

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.


>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.
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Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris



 
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