----- "Rainer Duffner" <rainer at 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