Re: Enterprise 450 UltraSparc II
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 15:41, Mike Artis wrote:
> My problem is that during and after installation, Debian reports the
> drive order incorrectly. It is reporting disk #4 (the first slot on
> the first controller card) as /dev/sda instead of disk #0 as
> /dev/sda. This setup worked correctly in Solaris 9, and works fine
> if I only have 4 disks in place in the onboard SCSI controller. As
> soon as drives get added to the controller cards, they are recognized
> first. OpenBoot always reports the drive order correctly.
Do the onboard and controller card use the same SCSI host driver? If
not, you are loading the drivers in the wrong order, you could try
building a kernel, with the onboard driver built-in and the SCSI
controller card driver as a module, to force the order that they're
initialized/detected in.
If they use the same driver, then the PCI device probing order is
different than what Solaris and OpenBOOT use, so you're not going to
have much luck changing that around.
Either way, I don't see why disk ordering should really matter, just use
the devices in the order you want (ie, /dev/sde as disk #0 and /dev/sda
as disk #4).
Pat
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