Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Kernel 2.4.3 and new aic7xxx | Date | Tue, 06 Mar 2001 07:38:33 -0700 | From | "Justin T. Gibbs" <> |
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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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