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SubjectRe: Kernel 2.4.3 and new aic7xxx
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>This is just to report on a the behavior of this driver. I've a dual
>channel Adaptec 7895 controller. The adapter BIOS is configured to boot
>from devices in channel B. I boot from a disk connected to channel B
>and when the kernel loads the driver the disks from channel A are seen
>first, resulting in the drive names changing from, say sda to sdb. This
>does not happen with 2.2.18 or 2.4.2. Is there an option to reverse the
>order? I saw some of the options in the code, but none about this.
>
>In any case, booting halts since the root file system can't be mounted.
>It didn't fry my disks, either :)

There is code in the driver to handle the channel B primary setting,
but I must have broken it recently. I'll reproduce this today
and get you a patch.

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Justin
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