----- "Bill Campbell" centos@celestial.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009, Tim Nelson wrote:
I've never been able to get into the BIOS on it. It's almost like the
card
doesn't have one. When the system boots, there is not the usual
'addon
card' operation where the card detects drives, displays it on the
screen,
then continues to POST. The system simply boots like the card isn't
there.
As long as you can boot from another device, the card is happily
recognized
and works flawlessly once an OS is running. I've looked into
resetting the
configuration on the card, etc... I just think in this case the card
may be
a lower end card used for secondary addon storage only without the
option
to boot...
Have you tried pressing ctrl-A when the Adaptec display appears in the boot process? It's been a while since I looked at the Adaptec SCSI BIOS settings, but I know there's an setting to suppress the ctrl-A prompt on booting. I never changed it, but always ass*u*me*d that turning this off would still allow one to enter the BIOS settings without the prompt.
Bill
It was a while ago this happened so my brain might be fuzzy... but I believe I tried this also. I'll give it a shot when the card may be eligible for use again. Thanks for the tip!
--Tim
(And now returning to your regularly scheduled programming. Sorry for the unintentional thread hijack here...)