----- "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.
Rainer
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...
Tim Nelson Systems/Network Support Rockbochs Inc. (218)727-4332 x105
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.
----- "Les Mikesell" lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
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.
-- Les Mikesell
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...
--Tim
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
----- "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...)
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Bill Campbell -
Les Mikesell -
Tim Nelson