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Re: Boot Controller Sequence Problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jlewis@lewis.org)
Wed Jan 26 09:49:48 2000
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 23:32:16 -0500 (EST)
From: jlewis@lewis.org
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Baumgartner_J=FCrg_=28RAD=29?= <juerg.baumgartner@kssh.ch>
Cc: "'linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu'" <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>,
"'e_soriano@dapsys.com'" <e_soriano@dapsys.com>
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, [iso-8859-1] Baumgartner Jürg (RAD) wrote:
> I am setting up a system with Linux 2.2.12 RedHat 6.1
>
> This system has two controllers:
> Adaptec managed by aic7xxx handling 4 drives I want to have as /dev/sda,
> sdb, sdc, sdd
> Mylex managed by BusLogic handling two units I want to have as /dev/sde, sdf
>
> Problem is when having Mylex linked with the two drives, BusLogic driver is
> called by hosts.c
> initialization procedure before aic7xxx, so I get a wrong devices sequence.
>
> How can I turn around this problem ?
There are several solutions.
You can compile both SCSI drivers as modules and load the aic7xxx one
first.
You can compile a kernel with aic7xxx linked in and BusLogic as a module.
You can edit hosts.c (in the kernel source) and rearrange the driver probe
order making aic7xxx load before BusLogic.
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