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

[dragon at atlantacon.org (Drag0n)]

    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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