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Re: PCI/SCSI AHA-2920 problems installing SW 3.2 - HELP!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Juan Andres Baranda)
Thu Aug 21 13:13:14 1997
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 12:11:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Juan Andres Baranda <andres@jueves.iwm.com.mx>
To: Steffen Grunewald <steffen@gfz-potsdam.de>
cc: John Rumball <rumbalj@gov.on.ca>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, jer@isys.ca,
als@di.uminho.pt
In-Reply-To: <199708211543.RAA05795@zrt2.gfz-potsdam.de>
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> "John Rumball writes"
> |>
> |> This morning I was finally successful at getting Linux to recognize my
> |> 2920 by using the following boot prompt command:
> |>
> |> boot: ramdisk fdomain=0x6100,10,7
> |>
> |> With this, it identified my internal Seagate SCSI HD, and my external
> |> CD-ROM drive and Zip drive. The only problem is that is assigns /dev/sda
> |> to my external ZIP drive and then complains that it cannot read the
> |> partition table (ie. there was no ZIP disk in the drive!) when I run fdisk.
> |>
> |> My question now is, how do I get Linux to assign /dev/sda to the internal
> |> HD instead of to the external ZIP? Or do I even need to wory about this?
> |> I want to be able to boot Linux off my HD, not my ZIP.
> |>
>
> Do you have only one controller ? If so, check the SCSI target ID's of
> both devices. Device names are assigned in 'lexicographic' order by
> controller_number+target_id ... The internal HD should have a smaller ID
> than the ZIP. (The ZIP has a SCSI interface, I read from the text above.)
>
> If you've got two controllers in your system, change scsi.c so that the
> controller holding your HD comes first.
>
> Good luck !
> --
> Steffen Grunewald | email steffen@gfz-potsdam.de | fax (+49)-331-8877 520
> GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Telegrafenberg A17, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany
> http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/
> /* Disclaimer : I don't speak for my employers, they don't speak for me */
>
I'm having the same problem but with redhat 4.2, a AHA 2920 and a
Quantum HD. I've been trying with the Future domain driver but i doesn't
seem to work... any hints?
