From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 11: 4: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sammy.tibco.com (sammy.tibco.com [192.216.111.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B8F237B90B; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 11:03:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aram@tibco.com) Received: from osgood.tibco.com (osgood.tibco.com [160.101.240.42]) by sammy.tibco.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA18867; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 11:03:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from venus.tibco.com (venus.tibco.com [160.101.240.40]) by osgood.tibco.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA07047; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 11:07:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tibco.com ([160.101.22.192]) by venus.tibco.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA2294; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 11:03:38 -0700 Message-ID: <39919B81.8381BE5D@tibco.com> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 10:57:21 -0700 From: "Aram Compeau" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,zh,fr,ja,ko MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Tancsa Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: forcing which SCSI device to boot from 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> <4.3.2.7.0.20000809124737.02c3f100@marble.sentex.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have no experience with IDE RAID controllers, but I believe you are normally stuck booting from an IDE drive if you have a system with mixed IDE ? SCSI drives. However, I know you said the BIOS seems to see the IDE RAID controller as a SCSI device (which I found surprising). Anyway, just a thought. Aram Mike Tancsa wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message