How to disable SCSI BIOS?

[Zorba]

I have an Adaptec 2930 PCI SCSI interface card. How do I disable the scsi bios, or is there a way?

Thank you.

 

[helpme]

you mean so it does not allow it to be bootable?

 

[corkyg]

During the boot, when you get to the Adaptect stuff, hit Ctrl A . . . that puts you into the 2930's menu and you make it so.

 

[Zorba]

Yeah. Doing so would take away the message and pause on boot-up, correct? Last night I had to restart my computer 5 times in a row and I got sick of waitting for it to find I wasn't booting off my scsi drives.

 

[Midnight Rambler]

Zorba,

Disabling the BIOS onboard the SCSI card may not get rid of the message during bootup. At least it doesn't for all my machines which have Adaptec cards (2940's)

 

[corkyg]

No, it does not get rid of the message or the ID # inventory. It just turns off the BIOS. The default on Adaptec H/A's is BIOS off.

 

[Zorba]

Well it still take forever before going on with the boot?

 

[corkyg]

No Zorba, usually the only thing that delays the SCSI bus check is if it can't find a device it is used to seeing.

I have two identical systems with SCSI, and one is Adaptec 2940UW. The other is SymBios. The Symbios is much faster than the Adaptec in doing that pre-boot inventory and check. I like it to display the devices so I can see if something is amiss. Takes about 10-15 seconds.

Turning off the bus only really affects bootability to a SCSI HDD. The rest of the chain says "life goes on." Ctrl A on boot, Advanced Config, set BIOS to disabled. Or . . . set F6 to Default and it will also be so.

 

[Dameon]

zorba - I found on my SCSI cards that I like to remove the ID's not being used from being scanned. See if under device preferences you can turn off, "INCLUDED IN BIOS SCAN" on all ID's that are currently blank. Will lower it down to just the items you have and take some time off the bios scan.

 

[Zorba]

Thank you, all.

Dameon: I was thinking about doing that last night, so I probably will now, thanks.