[H-GEN] SCSI Interface order

[David Jericho]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs David Jericho <davidj at in4free.com.au>)

On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 08:25:37AM +1000, Colin Riddel wrote:
> I have just installed RH6 on a new box with 2 SCSI cards
> one an Adaptec AIC 7890/1 embedded on the MB the other a
> Buslogic BT-956C with 2 drives on each
> The install kernel and default kernel detect and set 
> the AIC7890 as SCSI0 (as it should do) but when I recompile 
> the kernel, or upgrade to 2.2.10 the kernel sets the 
> Buslogic controller as SCSI0 which does wonders for 
> my drive mount points

My solution on occasions was to use an initial ramdisk. The fact that it's
still booting the right drive order is good. 

Easy solution under rh 6.0 is to use the command "mkinitrd".

[root at poopy]# mkinitrd --preload aic7xxx --preload BusLogic /boot/initrd-2.2.10.img 2.2.10

Then edit lilo to have the line "initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.10.img" with the 
kernel. Rerun lilo, and then fingers crossed, it'll load the initial ramdisk
first time around and load the drivers with the aic7xxx driver as scsi0.

I've noticed funny behavioural differences between 2.2.5 that redhat gives
and 2.2.10. Mainly in the way various things like SCSI order and the MD drivers
work.

I have 24GB of RAID 5 sitting here, and I want to put 2.2.10 on it. Problem
is, 2.2.10 doesn't want to recognise the 2.2.5 MD partitions. Anyone else
know a solution?

--
David "I want to play with beasty hardware again" Jericho

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