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Adaptec SCSI Card 29160 User’s Reference
Combining SCSI and Non-SCSI Devices
You can install the Adaptec SCSI Card 29160 in a computer that
already has a non-SCSI controller, such as an EIDE controller. How-
ever, you cannot cross-connect the disk drives and other devices:
SCSI devices must be connected to the Adaptec SCSI Card 29160,
EIDE devices must be connected to the EIDE controller, and so on.
When you install the Adaptec SCSI Card 29160 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 Spec-
ification (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 mother-
board 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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