Quitting The Scsi Bios Configuration Utility - TYAN Thunder i860 S2603 User Manual

Device Properties (continued)
Field
SCSI Timeout
Queue Tags
Boot Choice
Format
Verify
<Restore Defaults>

Quitting the SCSI BIOS Configuration Utility

Since some changes go into effect only after the system reboots, it is very important that you exit this util-
ity properly. To exit, press [ESC] (escape key) and respond to the prompts that follow.
If you reboot the system without properly exiting from this utility, some changes may
NOTE:
not take effect.
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Details on field
This field indicates the maximum amount of time [0
to 9999] in seconds to wait for a SCSI operation to
complete.
Since timeouts provide a safeguard that allows the
system to recover should an operation fail, it is rec-
ommended that a value greater than 0 be used. A
value of 0 allows unlimited time for an operation to
complete and could result int he system hanging
(waiting forever) should an operation fail.
Press [ENTER], type in a value, and then press
[ENTER] again to specify a new timeout value.
This field indicates whether to allow the use of
queue tags for a device. Currently the BIOS does
not use queue tags. This item specifies queue tag
control to higher level device drivers.
This field indicates whether this device may possibly
be selected as the boot device. This option is only
applicable to devices attached to adapter number 0
(in the boot list) on non-BBS systems. It provides
primitive BBS flexibility to non-BBS systems.
Select this option to low-level format the device.
If enabled, this option allows low-level formatting on
a disk drive. Low-level formatting will completely and
irreversibly erase all data on the drive.
Note: Formatting will default the drive to a 512-byte
sector size even if the drive had previously been for-
matted to another sector size.
Select this option to verify all sectors on the device
and to reassign defective Logical Block Addresses
(LBAs).
Select this option to restore all default settings.
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