On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 12:19:22 -0800
Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Normally the SCSI bios maps itself as device 0x80 (the first bootable
> device). In this manner, the computer BIOS doesn't know or doesn't care
> if it's talking to an IDE or SCSI device, it just knows to go to a
> certain location in memory. The SCSI bios puts itself there and thus
> the system is bootable from the SCSI drives.
But he does not have a SCSI BIOS.
He is using an ide add-on card and though the card carries it own BIOS it does not
operate in the manner of the SCSI in that the drive must first be detected by the
system BIOS in order for the boards BIOS to activate.
But for purposes of booting from drives attached to this card they are addressed as
SCSI by the system BIOS.
Charles
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