From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
To: "Rafael E. Herrera" <raffo@neuronet.pitt.edu>
Cc: LK <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.3 and new aic7xxx
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 07:38:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200103061438.f26EcXO03994@aslan.scsiguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Mar 2001 00:08:22 EST." <3AA470C6.1A2BD379@neuronet.pitt.edu>
>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.
--
Justin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-06 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-06 5:08 Rafael E. Herrera
2001-03-06 11:44 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-06 14:38 ` Justin T. Gibbs [this message]
2001-03-06 18:47 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2001-03-06 20:09 ` Doug Ledford
2001-03-06 20:40 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2001-03-07 5:41 ` Rafael E. Herrera
2001-03-07 5:46 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2001-03-07 6:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-07 7:22 ` Aaron Tiensivu
2001-03-07 18:46 ` Rafael E. Herrera
[not found] ` <200103070611.WAA01595@penguin.transmeta.com>
2001-03-07 21:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-03-07 22:43 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2001-03-07 22:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-03-07 23:35 ` Justin T. Gibbs
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