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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI PCI host adapter
Date: 28 Aug 1995 03:26:20 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <41nie1$97l@trauma.rn.com>, Larry Snyder <larry@trauma.rn.com> wrote:
>
>But what if I want to boot of the SCSI drive connected to my NCR
>host adapter?  My motherboard is an Opti PCI/VLB 100 Mhz.

    Then you need a motherboard that has BIOS support for booting from
a SCSI disk attached to the NCR controller.  All the ASUS PCI boards
do, AFAIK.
-- 
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org