Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 12:48:56 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: forcing which SCSI device to boot from Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.0.20000809124737.02c3f100@marble.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <20000809102852.A93534@panzer.kdm.org> References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000809115949.0296a970@marble.sentex.ca> <4.3.2.7.0.20000809111509.05e3b600@marble.sentex.ca> <4.3.2.7.0.20000809111509.05e3b600@marble.sentex.ca> <20000809100054.A93412@panzer.kdm.org> <4.3.2.7.0.20000809115949.0296a970@marble.sentex.ca>
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At 10:28 AM 8/9/00 -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 12:00:44 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > At 10:00 AM 8/9/00 -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> > >On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:16:51 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have an Adaptec 2940 and a 3ware IDE raid card. I have been booting
> > > from
> > > > the Adaptec, but when I put the 3ware card in, the drive insists on
> > > booting
> > > > from the 3ware. Apart from making a boot floppy disk, is there any
> way to
> > > > force the drive to boot from the Adaptec ?
> > >
> > >You can try swapping the slots they are in.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > I tried that as well as assigning different IRQs (one higher than
> > the other), and still no dice. Someone else told me its based on the PROM
> > address :-(
>
>Well, the only other thing I can think of would be to disable the BIOS on
>the RAID controller.
Sadly not an option on the 3ware card :-( I have a call into their support
to see if there is some undocumented way to do it. I will post the results
here when I hear back from them.
---Mike
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Sentex Communications mike@sentex.net
Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net
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