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

[Drag0n]

Are these onboard cards, or pci cards? If its onboard, then you are 
limited to how it will boot and recognise the cards. Swaping the cables 
may not work, and also may require a rebuild. Adaptec bios should have 
an option to  set the boot channel/card, if they are on board, if they 
are pci, then it should be easy to turn off loading the scsi bios.


Drag0n
dragon<at>atlantacon.org

John Allgood wrote:

> 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
>> dragon<at>atlacon.org
>>
>>
>> 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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