Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 1:08:09 METDST From: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelsha@ez-darmstadt.telekom.de> To: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Subject: Multiple host adapter question Message-ID: <9709252308.AA31535@mailgate2.telekom.de>
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The aic7xxx for Linux finds host adapters in a sequence from lower
chipset # to higher ones.
This causes NO possibility to have a boot disk with a host adpter
having a newer chipset.
In my example i use a 2940UW and a 2940W in PCI 0 and 1.
To work arround my problem i found two short aic7xxx.c ways to fix it.
1. Scanning for adapters from new to old versus old to new in the
loop starting with " for (i = 0; i < NUMBER(aic7xxx_pci_devices); i++)".
2. Exchanging rows of the aic7xxx_pci_devices table to get my favorate first.
IMHO the "better" way should be to use the PCI slot #
in a lower # comes first scheme.
Ideas welcome.
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