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Date:	Thu, 7 Mar 2002 11:21:46 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: bootable SCSI cd

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Mark replied to me:

> > With the current mb, there always
> >was that notice "No SCSI BIOS" during bootup.
>
> Mine says that also, but only if there's no bootable unit attached. Go
> into the SCSI BIOS, and set the CD as bootable. I'm almost 100% positive
> that you can boot from CD with that SCSI card and motherboard.

If you are correct on this, it would be great news.

And Steven added:

> I don't see why not. Have you checked the 2940U BIOS settings as Mark
> suggested.

I'm probably a few hours away from doing precisely that. (As usual, Warp has been up for quite some time without a
reboot, and I'd like to finish a few things before I do so.) Will let you know what I find. However, I can only check
this out on the _current_ mb, which happens to be an Asus P2B-F. One might expect the P3B-F to follow suit, it being a
direct successor, but then again maybe not. I was able to consult some product literature for the P3C-E, which I think
is fairly contemporaneous with the P3B series, and (in sharp contrast) it makes explicit reference to having a
"Smart-BIOS", which can "boot from HD/SCSI/MO/ZIP/CD-ROM." No idea if that was a then newly introduced feature.

Jordan

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