Siemens Nixdorf D970, Technical Manual

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Settings in SCSI Setup Additional Options
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Extended BIOS Translation for DOS Drives > 1GByte
Enabling this option allows drives of up to 8 Gbyte capacity (2 Gbyte/partition) to
be supported under MS-DOS 5.0 or higher. The SCSI BIOS must be enabled.
In earlier days, it was only possible to use drives with a capacity of up to 1 Gbyte
under MS-DOS 5.0.
Enabled
Drives up to 8 Gbytes can be used under MS-DOS 5.0 (default
entry).
Disabled
Drives up to 1 Gbyte can be used under MS-DOS 5.0.
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Back up the data on your large capacity drive before enabling the option.
After enabling this option, the drive must be re-partitioned and high-level
formatted with the DOS
FDISK
and
FORMAT
programs.
Display <CTRL>
<CTRL> <CTRL>
<CTRL> + <A>
<A> <A>
<A> Message During BIOS Initialization
This option determines whether the
Press <Ctrl> <A> for SCSISelect (TM) Utility!
message appears on your screen during system bootup.
If this setting is disabled, you can still invoke the SCSI configuration program by
pr at system bootup.
Enabled
The message is displayed during startup (default entry).
Disabled
The message is not displayed during startup.
Multiple LUN Support
This option determines whether booting from a SCSI device that has multiple
LUNs (Logical Unit Numbers) is supported.
Enabled
The SCSI device will be used as the startup drive.
Disabled
The SCSI device will not be used as the startup drive (default
entry).