[5441] in linux-scsi channel archive
Two BusLogic cards?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brendan Miller)
Thu Dec 17 00:10:20 1998
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:04:15 -0800
From: Brendan Miller <brmiller@netgate.net>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Reply-To: Brendan Miller <brmiller@netgate.net>
I am just about to add my second BusLogic card (a BT930/Flastpoint LT)
to handle my narrow devices. (I currently have a BT958 with 4 wide
devices attached to it.) My concern is that with two BusLogic cards,
the driver will detect both of them at system startup, and one of them
will be scsi0--I need the BT958 to be that one.
I read the part about PCI Slot Scanning Order in the README.BusLogic.
Am I to interpret the statement "The motherboard's PCI BIOS provides a
standard way of enumerating the PCI host adapters, which is uesd by the
Linux kernel." to mean that if I get it in the "right" order, the PCI
BIOS and Linux kernel will always agree? I take it trial-and-error is
the only way to determine slot/device enumeration...
But then I read the part about Microsoft's enumeration tactics, and
wonder what implications this has... I take it Windows NT does not
operate this way? I use this machine (only occasionally) for NT
(which I boot off an IDE drive, but would still like to have my BusLogic
cards detected because the CDROM is attached to one of them), so should I
disable the "Use Bus and Device # for PCI Scanning Seq"?
What's the recommended practice for sorting out scsi0/scsi1 problems?
Brendan Miller
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