Primary channel B?

Justin T. Gibbs gibbs at narnia.plutotech.com
Thu Jul 30 22:18:47 PDT 1998


In article <35C0F706.4BAB8CEE at cadvision.com> you wrote:
> I am using an AHA2742N EISA card. I have set Channel B in the AHA2742
> bios  as the primary channel for boot purposes. Channel B is internal
> bus only, A is both internal and external.  
> 
> I need to have Channel B scanned before Channel A so that my boot drive
> appears as /dev/sda. Currently Channel A is scanned first and my boot
> drive appears as /dev/sdd. Unfortunately, lilo requires the boot drive
> to be bios C: (/dev/sda) or D: (/dev/sdb).
> 
> Is there a simple fix for this, swap channel number variables (0 and 1)
> in the source files?

That depends on what operating system you are using.  Remember that this
list is used by Linux, FreeBSD, and sometimes NetBSD and OpenBSD users
of these cards.

--
Justin

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