Re: Minor 2.4.3 Adaptec Driver Problems

Marko Kreen (marko@l-t.ee)
Sun, 1 Apr 2001 14:31:38 +0200


On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 01:09:30PM -0700, Earle Nietzel wrote:
> > Umm. This isn't an aic7xxx driver problem at all. The SCSI layer
> > determines the order of bus attachment *amongst* the various
> > SCSI HBA (or SCSI HBA like) drivers in the system. In this case,
> > it has decided to probe your IDE devices as SCSI devices first.
> > Why it does this I don't really know (link order perhaps???). One
> > way around this would be to put your IDE driver into an initial
> > ram disk and compile the aic7xxx driver directly into the kernel.

> It really wouldn't make a big deal but I consider my cdroms and zip drives
> to be removable devices and if I ever decided to remove my zip my scsi ids
> will change. Removing a harddrive is not the same as removing a zip!
>
> Are there other people with the same problem?

Yes, I have ide-scsi compiled in for cd-writer, so 2.4.3 did not
boot on my machine (that is, could not mount anything).

Not nice.

-- 
marko

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