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Using the Adaptec SCSI Card and SCSI Devices
When you install an Adaptec SCSI Card and SCSI disk drives in a
computer that boots from a non-SCSI disk drive, the computer will
continue to boot from the non-SCSI disk drive unless you change
the computer’s CMOS configuration. You do not need to change
the configuration if you just want to use the SCSI drives for
additional file storage space.
If your computer’s motherboard BIOS supports the BIOS Boot
Specification (BBS) feature, you can select a different boot device
without much difficulty. (To determine if the motherboard BIOS
supports BBS, read the computer documentation or contact your
motherboard manufacturer.)
The following table shows what to do, after you physically install
the SCSI card and SCSI devices, to use different kinds of disk drives
in the same computer.
Does computer
BIOS support BBS?
Want computer to boot
from SCSI drive?
Then do this:
No
No
No action required. SCSI drives
and non-SCSI drives can be used
together.
No
Yes
Run CMOS Setup program.
Change primary Hard Disk
setting to None or No Drives
Installed
(see computer
documentation). You will not be
able to use the non-SCSI drive(s) at
all when you boot from the SCSI
drive.
Yes
No
No action required. SCSI drives
and non-SCSI drives can be used
together.
Yes
Yes
Run CMOS Setup program and
select SCSI drive as boot device.
SCSI drives and non-SCSI drives
can be used together.
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