B-6
Configuring the SCSI Card 2930CU with SCSISelect
■
All Disks
—All removable-media drives supported by the
BIOS are treated as hard disk drives.
■
Disabled
— No removable-media drives are treated as hard
disk drives. Software drivers are required because the drives
are not controlled by the BIOS.
Caution:
Do not
remove media from a removable-media
SCSI drive controlled by the SCSI card BIOS while the
drive is on. You may lose data. To be able to remove
media while the drive is on, install the removable-
media software driver and set
Support Removable
Disks Under BIOS as Fixed Disks
to
Disabled
.
■
Extended BIOS Translation for DOS Drives > 1 GB
—When set
to
Enabled
, provides an extended translation scheme for SCSI
hard disk drives with capacities greater than 1 GB. This setting
is necessary only for MS-DOS 5.0 or above. The extended
translation scheme supports 2-GB partitions on hard disk drives
as large as 8 GB.
To partition a hard disk drive larger than 1 GB that is controlled
by the SCSI card BIOS, use the MS-DOS
Fdisk
command and
specify a partition size that is a multiple of 8. (
Fdisk
rounds up to
the nearest whole multiple of 8.)
Caution:
Back up your disks before changing the
translation scheme.
■
Display Ctrl+A Messages during BIOS Initialization
—When
set to
Enabled
, the SCSI card BIOS displays this message during
system bootup:
Press Ctrl+A for SCSISelect (TM) Utility!
If this setting is disabled, you can still invoke the SCSI
Select
utility by pressing
Ctrl+A
after the SCSI card BIOS banner
appears.
■
BIOS Support for Bootable CD-ROMs
—When set to
Enabled
,
the SCSI card BIOS allows booting from a CD-ROM drive. Set to
Disabled
to boot from a hard disk drive or other device.
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