Tim Nelson wrote:
----- "Rainer Duffner" rainer@ultra-secure.de wrote:
Except that nowadays, some cheap desktop-motherboards may not know how to enable booting from such a card. It's years since I used SCSI-drives for desktop-use - and then it was a workstation-class Dual-Xeon board, Socket 604. So I can't say if this is still true today - but I've read that people have problems like that.
I've actually found that even in some systems that can boot from addon cards properly, there are still some cards that are not "bootable". In fact, I have a 29160LP that would not show up as a bootable option in a half dozen servers I tried. This includes anywhere from custom built boxes to nice upper end Dell units. YMMV...
Does it have an option to enable/disable bios in the card setup like other ataptec cards? If so it has to be enabled to boot.