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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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