On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 at 10:37pm, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote
> I have a dual bus Adaptec controller on my motherboard. I've got the
> controller configured to probe bus "B" first, and bus "A" second (bus "A"
> is the narrow bus).
>
> Under 2.4.2, this meant that bus "B" was scsi0.
>
> The Adaptec driver in 2.4.3 doesn't appear to care about this particular
> setting, so bus "A" is now scsi0. The net result is that anything
> specified by device (/dev/sd/c0b0t10u0) had to be renumbered.
>
> Not a biggy, but something to watch out for if you're about to dive
> head first into a freshly built 2.4.3+XFS kernel. This was covered in
> far more detail, I believe, on linux-kernel, but that was a week or so
> ago.
>
To contine in this vein, the recommended fix seemed to be to download
the latest driver (6.1.8) from <http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/>.
I've got that running now (also on a machine with an embedded, dual
channel controller), on a kernel pulled out of CVS this morning and
everything was detected as expected.
Now we'll see how 3c59x and nfsd hold up. Sooner or later, I will have to
let the grad students at this RAID array. *sigh*
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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