[ale] Dual Adaptec 2200S Card on Redhat ES 3.0 x86_64

[John Allgood]

I thought I had already done that. As many things I have tried I will do 
that again. I think I tried swapping the cables around and I couldn't 
get the sytem to boot. I may try to reload after I switch the cables 
around and turn off BBS Support on the external cards. Thanks.

Drag0n wrote:
>    I have had similar issues with 2 of the same cards in a system 
> being recognised in different orders from the bios and kernel. I 
> normaly turn off the bootable bios in the external card, that gives 
> you the freedom to swap the order of the cards in the system to 
> initialize properly. As the external drives won't have any OS data on 
> them, they don't need to be able to load a scsi boot bios.
>    Another less popular option is to boot from a floppy so it doesnt 
> matter how the cards are ordered in the system.
>
>
> Drag0n
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> John Allgood wrote:
>
>> Hello Ale
>>
>>    I have a problem that Redhat has yet to solve for me. I have a 
>> Opteron system running dual Adaptec 2200s card. The card on bus 0 is 
>> running the internal drives that contain the OS. The second card on 
>> bus 1 has a Infostation attached. The problem is that the OS detects 
>> the Infostation first and labels /dev/sda on the Infostation and 
>> places /dev/sdh on the internal drives. I have done many things to 
>> try and correct the problem. I have moved cables around, played 
>> around with /etc/modules.conf and a couple of other things. Has 
>> anyone on the list got a similiar configuration and did you encounter 
>> this same problem. I am trying to build a cluster using the Redhat 
>> Cluster Suite. The systems are dual Opteron 250s, Tyan K8S Pro 
>> motherboard, Adapter 2200s controllers, Kingston Infostation. Any 
>> input would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> John Allgood - ESC
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