On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 11:09 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 23:19 +0800, Feizhou wrote:
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These seem to shift the first working drive into the first bios drive as well as /dev/sda. The same disk will boot whether I put it in the 1st or 2nd (SCA hot-swap) slot. I have noticed that some newer machines must be configured specifically for the slot to use when booting and are even unhappy if you swap in a different drive type in the same slot without reconfiguring the bios boot selection so this may vary a lot among machines.
IIRC, this was std. behavior for Adaptec HAs (and others?) if BIOS was enabled. Always liked that because the early 4GB drives were very unreliable and I could keep booting and running due to good backup, planning and drive relocation by the HA.
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