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From: "Patrick Moran" <pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com>
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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 06:15:42 -0700
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----- Original Message -----
From: <fernande AT internet1 DOT net>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 10:51 PM
Subject: Re:


>
>
> > No, this is the Mother Board BIOS that I was talking about. I should
have
> > made that a little more clear. It an Award BIOS and has no turn off
option
> > for it.
>
> Yes, but some provsion should be on the card itself for the scsi bios.

Yes there woud be, but the card would not work then.

>
> > My card detects this mother board BIOS and let's it take over the
> > boot process. The nice thing about it is non memory is used for ROM in
UMB.
>
> How does the card detect the motherboard?  Usually it would be the other
> way around, wouldn't it?

Ture, I imagine the MB BIOS detects the card and starts it's ROM program,
the ROM program will then look at the BIOS and determone it has the SCSI
extentions then pass control back to the MB BIOS. I checked all of this out
pretty thoroughly at Sybios, Tyan, and Tekram.

Tekram has a program I downloaded that will erase the SCSI code in the MB
BIOS, but I don't have flash ROM. I could if I wanted to, buy a Flash ROM
that would replace the ROM in the MB. I already have a copy of the BIOS
backed up. I could then do a hot swap of the ROM with the Flash memory and
then swtich the jumper, then load the backup into flash, then run the Tekram
program to delete the SCSI from it. But by the time I do all of that I hope
to have another MB and that will be before I get the Tekram card.  So it
really would not be worth the expense and time. I only paid $50-$60 for the
MB with 48MB RAM and an old ISA Trident video card, and port cables/bracket.

Pat



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