[434] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: multiple controller annoyance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Unix Administrator)
Thu Jul 27 22:01:56 1995
From: Unix Administrator <linux@greenie.com>
To: P.B.Schuller@wi.leidenuniv.nl (Bart Schuller)
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 09:48:00 +0800 (SST)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199507252306.XAA22313@ind143a.wi.leidenuniv.nl> from "Bart Schuller" at Jul 26, 95 01:06:37 am
According to Bart Schuller :
>
> Anyway, I know this probably won't get changed in the kernel, but having
> the PAS16 (which doesn't have BIOS support) checked before controllers
> which *do* have BIOS support is not ideal. For now I put the NCR driver
> as the very first in my kernel.
>
> Does Linux-alpha get 32-bit device numbers? (I know about the multiple
> controller problems, I just hadn't experienced them myself, and the
> BIOS/Linux mismatch is a nasty one. Luckily you can tell lilo about it).
>
> --
I have been experiencing the same problems too. But there's a particular
machine which uses loadlin and loadlinx to boot linux. Is there anyway to
specify the order with loadlin/loadlinx? As far as I know it should be
able to pass kernel parameters to the kernel when it starts up.
Daniel
