Adaptec 2930U User Guide - Page 60

Configuring the SCSI Card 2930CU with SCSISelect I All Disks-All removable-media drives supported by the BIOS are treated as hard disk drives. I Disabled- No removable-media drives are treated as hard disk drives. Software drivers are required because the drives are not controlled by the BIOS. ! Caution: Do not remove media from a removable-media SCSI drive controlled by the SCSI card BIOS while the drive is on. You may lose data. To be able to remove media while the drive is on, install the removablemedia software driver and set Support Removable Disks Under BIOS as Fixed Disks to Disabled. I Extended BIOS Translation for DOS Drives > 1 GB-When set to Enabled, provides an extended translation scheme for SCSI hard disk drives with capacities greater than 1 GB. This setting is necessary only for MS-DOS 5.0 or above. The extended translation scheme supports 2-GB partitions on hard disk drives as large as 8 GB. To partition a hard disk drive larger than 1 GB that is controlled by the SCSI card BIOS, use the MS-DOS Fdisk command and specify a partition size that is a multiple of 8. (Fdisk rounds up to the nearest whole multiple of 8.) ! Caution: Back up your disks before changing the translation scheme. I Display Ctrl+A Messages during BIOS Initialization-When set to Enabled, the SCSI card BIOS displays this message during system bootup: Press Ctrl+A for SCSISelect (TM) Utility! If this setting is disabled, you can still invoke the SCSISelect utility by pressing Ctrl+A after the SCSI card BIOS banner appears. I BIOS Support for Bootable CD-ROMs-When set to Enabled, the SCSI card BIOS allows booting from a CD-ROM drive. Set to Disabled to boot from a hard disk drive or other device. B-6