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To: Spots who wrote (996)	6/5/1998 1:52:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 14778

[Disc Management ] From Intel SE440BX Motherboard Technical Specification From the hard drive sub menu The operating system assigns a drive letter to each boot device in the order listed.* Changing the order of the devices changes the drive lettering.* One can select four boot devices. I would assume that they could all be hard discs. My understanding is that one could manage drive letter assignment in this bios of four hard discs. There is an option to disable a master/slave combination but I do not see an option to disable an individual disc. SCSI ID and boot sequence I have been snooping around the BIOS's in several machines. The Adaptec AHA-2940 Ultra/Ultra W SCSI select utility V1.23 gives one the option to select a Boot Target ID When I open the option I see a choice of 7 SCSI ID's to choose from. There is no indication of the search sequence (up or down or back to the beginning) One machine has an Adaptec AIC-7870 SCSI controller. The SCSI utility gives no options to select the Boot Target ID IDE machines The options definitely vary between machines and BIOS and versions of BIOS. In an IBM machine with one hard disc one only sees an option to boot from one hard disc. In a similar machine with two hard discs one sees the option to select between the two hard discs or both and to vary the sequence. Some machines only allow floppy or hard disc while others give a full range of options even if the components are not installed. Zeuspaul