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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI PCI host adapter
Date: 23 Aug 1995 16:12:47 +0200
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Steven A. DuChene <sad@sduchene.mindspring.com> wrote:
>Actually if you are only going to use the SCSI devices in Linux and don't plan
>on booting from them Linux can see the card and any devices hung off of it
>without the NCR BIOS in the motherboard.
This is certainly a feature of many os's, not quite Linux only. Since
they provide hardware support of their own, they don't require BIOS
support. It's only required for booting.
Same would hold e.g. for an IDE interface that is not registered with
the BIOS. Thus you could boot off a SCSI disk (w/ controller BIOS, of
course), and use an IDE disk for some third-level archiving etc.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)