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SCSI Host ordering...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Gray)
Wed Mar 26 05:32:08 1997
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 16:36:40 +0800
From: David Gray <davidg@newton.dialix.com.au>
To: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Hi,
I have a system with two Symbios SCSI controllers in it, a 810a and a
875 ultra fast wide controller.
The system disk hangs off the 875 and the 810 has a couple of slower
external shoeboxes on it.
The system is configured so that it expects to find the root filesystem
+ swap spaces on /dev/sda.
The PC's BIOS allows me to specify a 'boot order' for the two SCSI cards
and I have it set to scan the 875 before the 810 so it boots off the
fast wide system disk.
However, as soon as Linux comes up, the ncr53c8xx driver orders the two
adaptors with the 810 as host-0 and the 875 as host-1. As soon as I
attach any disks to the 810, they get assigned as /dev/sda, sdb etc, the
system disk gets /dev/sdc, Linux can't find it's root filesystem and the
system won't boot.
Is there anything that I can do to change the ordering of the host
adaptors? I am using the 1.18c drivers on a 2.0.29 kernel.
I couldn't see anything in the documentation, but I would happy to be
corrected if I missed it! :-)
Thanks,
David Gray.
