[CentOS] Raid Cards

Fri Jun 9 16:40:07 UTC 2006
William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com>

On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 11:09 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 23:19 +0800, Feizhou wrote: 
> > > 
> > >>><snip>

> 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.

> <snip sig stuff>

-- 
Bill
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