Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 14:09:39 -0400 From: John <papalia@udel.edu> To: "Aram Compeau" <aram@tibco.com>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: forcing which SCSI device to boot from Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20000809140716.00aced70@mail.udel.edu> In-Reply-To: <39919B81.8381BE5D@tibco.com> 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>
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Perhaps have you tried the simple solution of setting your computer's bios to boot to SCSI? The few 'modern' bioses that I've looked all have a boot option in them to boot first to A, C, CDROM, or SCSI. That might help a bit? Just a thought, John >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 > > > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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