Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 22:16:07 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: forcing which SCSI device to boot from Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000809221502.047996d8@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <20000809221521.D468@hand.dotat.at> References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000809111509.05e3b600@marble.sentex.ca> <4.3.2.7.0.20000809111509.05e3b600@marble.sentex.ca>
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At 10:15 PM 8/9/2000 +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
>Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> 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 ?
>
>When we had this problem we just overwrote the boot blocks on the 3ware.
>Invalid boot blocks -> no boot.
Hi,
What if you rebuild the array, or the array dies ? Also, how do you set
the boot blocks to no boot ?
Thanks,
---Mike
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