From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 9 9:53:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65C4C37BE1D; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 09:53:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA11488; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:53:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simoeon.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA04103; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:52:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000809124737.02c3f100@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 12:48:56 -0400 To: "Kenneth D. Merry" From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: forcing which SCSI device to boot from Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications mike@sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message