Thanks for the help... I was mistaken for posting to this list...I come to
find this particular machine was running RedHat Linux on an Alpha, and not
DEC Unix. I'm posting a summary anyway with the suggestions.
The suggestions were:
The scsi bus numbers are assigned in the order of discovery, which usually
means the order that they are in the PCI bus. Physically swapping the
order of cards may work. (didn't in my case).
Or try updating the firmware and/or hack the kernel config to change the order.
The SRM (V5.5 1999) didn't recognize the card... perhaps an update will
help. If not I'll try finding some way in RH linux to tweak it. SRM
doesn't recognize (shows as "Vendor: ####"), but Linux does once it gets
into linux.
Thanks!
>I have an Alpha 164LX 500Mhz that already has a Symbios scsi card (original)
>I want to add an Adaptec 2930U.
>
>On SRM prompt, show dev results in showing only the Symbios as pka0 and
>the devices attached to it.
>Then once boot starts, The adaptec shows up as scsi0 and the Symbios shows
>as scsi1
>So booting fails, trying to boot from scsi0 (the new card).
>
>What am I missing to switch them so the card that's original stays as scsi0?
>
>Thanks,
>Dan
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Dan Kirkpatrick dkirk_at_physics.syr.edu
Computer Systems Manager
Department of Physics
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
http://www.physics.syr.edu/help/ Fax:(315) 443-9103
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Received on Mon Aug 06 2001 - 12:47:36 NZST