----- "Bill Campbell" <centos at 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...)