Re: adding SCSI disks
Hi Marco
On my system, I have a 2840 which I understand to be close to the same
firmware as 2940. The lowest scsi id is the boot drive.
You don't mention scsi ids. Look at them and mail the list,
I'll answer if someone doesn't get to you before me.
David
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On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Marco Frattola wrote:
> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 18:14:58 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Marco Frattola <mfrattola@enjoy.it>
> To: debian linux <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: adding SCSI disks
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> Hi all,
> this is not a debian problem, but probably many debianers know the answer to
> this question.
> I have an IBM netfinity 3000 with 2 SCSI adapters, one aha 2940UW and
> one 2940AU. the second one is supposed to drive an external box with
> 4x9.1GB disks, the first one drives the internal disk only. the
> external box can contain up to 8 disks, and in the future we'll
> probably use more disks. my question is: no matter how I tried, the
> 'finity sees the 2940au as the first adapter, so the internal disk is
> named after the external diskis. now it's called sde and lilo config
> says to boot from sde. if I add new (external) disks, the internal
> will be called sdf/sdg/sdh/whatever and the machine won't boot. how
> can I change lilo.conf before adding new disks to let the machine boot
> again? I know it can be done (it's done at the end of debian config,
> when the istall program asks: do you want to boot from hd?) I have
> tried with
>
> lilo -C path-to-lilo.conf -i path-to-boot.b
>
> but it complained about not finding /vmlinuz ..
>
> TIA
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