> 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.
my disks have the following ids:
disk on 2940UW - id 0
disk on 2940AU - id 0
- id 1
- id 2
- id 3
> 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.
but the problem is that id 0 on the 2940AU gets called sda even if it's not
the id 0 disk .. just because it's the first disk on the first SCSI chain
> > Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 18:14:58 +0200 (MET DST)
> > From: Marco Frattola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: debian linux <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > Subject: adding SCSI disks
> > Resent-Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:24:02 +0000
> > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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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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