At 04:07 PM 3/27/2006, Gaffer typed:
Am I misunderstanding here !
Maybe I am ?
If you set the SCSI to be the boot device, it is able to overide the
mainboard bios settings because its bios is read first !!
Even if I do NOT set the SCSI card as bootable in the mombo bios, I
still boot to SCSI if it's bios & drive are set as bootable.
FWIW. I have a Gigabyte mainboard with an Award bios ! It too will let
me change the order of boot ! But only if I turn off SCSI card boot
capability. When I do this I can choose which type of device I want to
boot with first.
For me it doesn't matter which drive is set to boot first if the SCSI
card is set as bootable & there is a bootable drive attached that's
what is going to boot. In a way this is kind of neat because I
actually have several Active Primary Partitions. If I want to boot to
IDE I don't bother with the system's bios I just turn off the SCSI
bootable option via Ctrl A & the system then boots the IDE drive
instead of the Seagate Cheetah. This has been true with this Adaptec
2940U2W on an Abit, Asus & 2 Gigabyte system boards.
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Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
<http://www.wavijo.com>
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