Kris Steenhaut wrote:

> mrmazda73 wrote:
 
> >Here's one that at first glance doesn't: Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro

>
>>http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_Spec_GA-8IPE1000%20Pro.htm

> >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.

> >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.

> 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?

After, unlike any other motherboard I've ever touched.
 
> 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.

> >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.

The problem above obviously must mean a broken BIOS. Your Epox problem
is probably just a different broken BIOS.
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