Dell PowerEdge 2500SC - Manual (Page 18)

l All Disks — All removable-media drives supported by the BIOS are treated as hard-disk drives.
l Disabled — No removable-media drives are treated as hard-disk drives. In this situation, software drivers are needed because the drives are not controlled by
the BIOS.
l BIOS Support For Bootable CD-ROM — Determines whether the host adapter BIOS provides support for booting from a CD-ROM drive. The default
setting is Enabled.
l BIOS Support For Int 13 Extensions — Determines whether the host adapter BIOS supports disks with more than 1024 cylinders. The default setting is
Enabled.
l Support For Ultra SCSI Speed — Determines whether the host adapter supports the fast transfer rates (20–40 MB/sec). The default setting is Enabled.
Starting the SCSISelect Utility
You can start the SCSISelect utility by pressing when the following prompt appears briefly during start-up:
Press for SCSISelect™ Utility!
The first menu displays the Configure/View Host Adapter Settings and SCSI Disk Utilities options.
Using SCSISelect Menus
SCSISelect uses menus to list options that you can select. To select an option, press the up- and down-arrow keys to move the cursor to the option; then press
.
In some cases, selecting an option displays another menu. You can return to the previous menu at any time by pressing . To restore the original SCSISelect
default values, press .
Using the SCSI Disk Utilities
To access the SCSI disk utilities, select SCSI Disk Utilities from the menu that appears when you start SCSISelect. When the option is selected, SCSISelect
immediately scans the SCSI bus (to determine the devices installed) and displays a list of all SCSI IDs and the device assigned to each ID.
When you select a specific ID and device, a menu appears, displaying the Format Disk and Verify Disk Media options.
l Format Disk — Runs a utility that allows you to perform a low-level format on a hard-disk drive. Most SCSI disk drives are formatted at the factory and do
not need to be formatted again. The Adaptec Format Disk utility is compatible with the majority of SCSI disk drives.
l Verify Disk Media — Runs a utility that allows you to scan the media of a hard-disk drive for defects. If the utility finds bad blocks on the media, it prompts
you to reassign them; if you select Yes, those blocks are no longer used. You can press at any time to exit the utility.
Exiting SCSISelect
To exit SCSISelect, press until a message prompts you to exit. (If you changed any 78x x series host adapter settings, you are prompted to save the changes
before you exit.) At the prompt, select Yes to exit, and then press any key to reboot the system. Any changes that you made in SCSISelect take effect after the system
boots. (You can select No at the prompt if you are not ready to exit SCSISelect.)
Troubleshooting for Windows NT
The boot manager for Windows NT contains recovery logic to allow you to return to the last known good configuration. If you have changed your host adapter
configuration and Windows NT no longer boots, perform the following steps to recover it:
1. Undo any hardware changes that you have made to the system since it was last operational.
2. Reboot the system. Watch the display carefully during start-up. If the following message appears, press the spacebar, type l at the next screen, and then follow
the instructions on the screen to continue booting with the last known good configuration:
Press spacebar NOW to invoke the Last Known Good menu
3. When your system is operational again, check all of the hardware and software configuration changes that you want to make. Look specifically for conflicts with
parts of the existing system configuration that are not being changed.
If you cannot determine the source of the error, see, "Getting Help" in the Installation and Troubleshooting Guide for instructions on contacting Dell for
technical assistance.
NOTICE: The Format Disk option destroys all data on the hard-disk drive.