Specifications

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• Display <Ctrl> <A> Messages during BIOS Initialization—
(Default: Enabled) When set to Enabled, the SCSI card BIOS
displays the Press <Ctrl> <A> for SCSISelect (TM) Utility!
message on your screen during system bootup. If this setting is dis-
abled, you can still invoke the SCSISelect Utility by pressing
<Ctrl> <A> after the SCSI card BIOS banner appears.
• Extended BIOS Translation for DOS Drives > 1 GByte—
(Default: Enabled) When set to Enabled, provides an extended
translation scheme for SCSI hard disks with capacities greater than
1 GByte. This setting is necessary only for MS-DOS 5.0 or above;
it is not required for other operating systems, such as NetWare or
UNIX.
Caution: Changing the translation scheme destroys all data
on the drive. Be sure to back up your disk drives
before changing the translation scheme.
Use the MS-DOS Fdisk command to partition a disk larger than 1
GByte controlled by the SCSI card BIOS, when using DOS, Windows
3.1.x, or Windows 95/98.
• Verbose/Silent Mode—(Default: Verbose) When set to Verbose,
the SCSI card BIOS displays the host adapter model on the screen
during system buildup. When set to Silent, the message is not
displayed during bootup.
• Host Adapter BIOS (Configuration Utility Reserves BIOS
Space)—(Default: Enabled) Enables or disables the SCSI card
BIOS.
• Leave at Enabled to allow the SCSI card BIOS to scan and
initialize all SCSI devices.
• Set to Disabled: Not scan if the devices on the SCSI bus (for
example, CD-ROM drives) are controlled by software driv-ers
and do not need the BIOS, and you do not want the BIOS to scan
the SCSI bus.