[2446] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: SCSI ZIP & LILO problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Rumball)
Fri Sep 12 16:47:08 1997
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 10:40:10 -0400
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
From: John Rumball <rumbalj@gov.on.ca>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <19970911141902.2735.qmail@mail.ocs.com.au>
Keith,
At 12:18 AM 12/09/97 +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Sep 1997 09:36:46 -0400,
>John Rumball <rumbalj@gov.on.ca> wrote:
>> My question is, "How do I fix this so that I can easily add/remove the
>>ZIP drive from the chain without having these bootup problems?"
>
>Fixed drives should have lower SCSI id's than removable drives. That
>way your fixed drives always come up in the same order, external drives
>vary from run to run.
Thanks for your comments, but I believe the manual for my AHA-2920
controller states that if I want to boot off of a fixed SCSI disk, it's id
MUST be 6. The Zip drive is limited to ids 5 or 6, so I have to use 5.
Because id's 7, 6, and 5 are taken, the CD-ROM's id can be anywhere between
0 and 4 but it's the CD-ROM that I want to leave permanently in place!
Thanks again.
John
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John E. Rumball, District Systems Officer
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