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

[John Allgood]

Hello Again
  
    I think I found what I was doing wrong. I was changing an option 
called BBS Support. I disabled scsi BIOS support on the scsi card that 
handles the external drives and I believe that has fixed the problem. 
Sometimes when you have looked at a problem for so long you miss the 
obvious.

Thanks

Drag0n wrote:
> 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
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> 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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