Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:43:35 +0200 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: SCSI scanning |
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Jeremy Higdon wrote: [...] > My system has both an Adaptec adapter and a Qlogic adapter. The number of > disks on the Qlogic was variable (it was attached to a SAN). The boot > disk is attached to the Adaptec. If the Qlogic was probed first, then > linux could not find the root device, so I had to move the Adaptec 7xxx > above the Qlogic in hosts.c. > > Is there another way to do this? If so, I'd like to know. If not, then > we need the same configurability with the new scheme. > I have the same problem. Boot from raid-1 on a Tekram LVD controller, and have an adaptec with an old cdrom and sometimes a disk too. The adaptec is detected first. But there is an easy fix: Compile the boot controller into the kernel, and let the other controller be modular. Compiled-in controllers always go before modular.
Ideally I'd like specifying controller order in menuconfig. Perhaps a "controller order" submenu in scsi, that display the default order of the selected controllers. The user can then change this. I guess that is 2.5 stuff though.
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