[7128] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Scsi card detection order in 2.2.x
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Riley Williams)
Fri Sep 3 07:18:27 1999
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:17:19 +0100 (GMT)
From: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX>
To: David Livingstone <davidl@cn.ca>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <37CE80D8.8E01591C@cn.ca>
Hi David.
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, David Livingstone wrote:
>
> I have multiple scsi cards in the same machine(ie ICP/NCR) and I
> need the scsi disks detected in the same order every time. In
> 2.2.x is the only way to do this by my modifying the order in
> hosts.c ? I could use a combination of kernel/module loads but I
> would prefer to have both drivers in the kernel.
> The specific problem I'm running into is when a temporary
> external jaz is connected to the ncr scsi. Because the ncr is
> detected before the ICP the root disk now ends up as sdb instead
> of sda.
Isn't there something similar to the multi-ethernet thingie to deal
with this? I haven't used SCSI myself, but I have configured several
machines with multiple different ethernet cards (typically NE2k and
Tulip, but there have been other combinations) where I have needed to
guarantee the order they are detected.
The fix in that case was to use lilo's "append=" facility to specify
which driver should grab which card, and if it doesn't already exist,
a similar facility is probably a good idea for SCSI...
Best wishes from Riley.
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