Subj : Re: Upgrade
To   : David R. Norton
From : Bob Bainbridge
Date : Wed Jul 25 2001 02:24 pm

 DRN> As usual, I'm confused.  I had a PCI scsi card for years, an NCR using
 DRN> someone else's chipset, that had no bios, none at all. 
 DRN>  I tried using a SCSI
 DRN> hard drive and it booted just fine.  Having a BIOS on the SCSI card is a
 DRN> very good thing but AFAIK isn't necessary to make the SCSI drive the boot
 DRN> device, the motherboard BIOS does that.

I don't have any SCSI hard drives but I know that you can't boot bootable CD's 
without the bios. WIndows 2000 comes on a bootable CD which I can boot with my 
Adaptec 2940-UW CSI card but couldn't boot with an INITIO SCSI card. Check 
PRICEWATCH and you will find ADAPTEC 2940 cards starting at $36 (machine 
puuls-not new). That's what I'm running. I went to the Adaptec website and 
downloaded the latest 2000 bios for the card and have been using it for a year 
now, driving a Sony CD-R and Sony CD-RW drives.

Bob Bainbridge <Team OS/2>
bob_bainbridge@prodigy.net

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