User's Guide

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Adaptec SCSI Card 39320D User’s Guide for Floppy Disks (OEM)
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:
Installing Multiple SCSI Cards
■ You can install multiple SCSI cards in your computer; you are
limited only by the available system resources (for example,
IRQ settings, I/O port addresses, BIOS addresses, and so forth).
■ Each SCSI card you install forms a separate SCSI bus with a
different set of SCSI devices. SCSI IDs can be reused as long as
the ID is assigned to a device on a different SCSI card (for
example, each SCSI card can have a device with SCSI ID 2).
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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