How Do You Identify A SCSI Controller?
Identifying a SCSI controller, or any peripheral card, can be quite a challenge. When faced with any board from inside a computer with no documentation, identifying that part and then being able to find a manual or the correct Windows driver can mean the difference between the part being usable or worthless. SCSI controllers are a rare subset of the typical parts found in a computer. While more often than not found in a server than the basic desktop computer, SCSI controllers are used to connect tape backup systems, CDROMs and high reliability hard drives. The fact that these parts are usually expensive adds to the motivation as to why anyone would choose to identify these devices. Watch the BIOS information as a computer system boots up. This is the white text on a black screen that scrolls by when you first power up a computer system. If the SCSI card is bootable (which many are), it will identify itself during the SCSI initialization process. Even if the SCSI drive is not bootable,
