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Date:      Fri, 15 Mar 1996 13:01:31 -0300 (EST)
From:      Wagner Ikeda <wagner@beta.internetional.com.br>
To:        JULIAN Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: trouble with IDE + SCSI (Adaptec2940)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960315125935.6584C-100000@beta.internetional.com.br>
In-Reply-To: <199603142140.NAA21488@ref.tfs.com>

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On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, JULIAN Elischer wrote:

> if you want to boot off the SCSI when with IDE on a 100% FreeBSD system,
> then simply take teh IDE drives out of the BIOS tables..
> freebsd will find them anyhow..

thanks for your answer.

unfortunatelly I forgot to tell that I already removed the IDE drive entry
from BIOS ...

regards, 
Wagner

> > I am having problems with the following configuration:
> > 
> > 2.1.0
> > Adaptec 2940
> > Seagate 15150W 4Gb SCSI
> > Western D. 1Gb EIDE
> > 
> > The system is 100% FreeBSD. 
> > I installed a boot manager on EIDE disk (2940 doc says the boot device have
> > to be the IDE when both IDE and SCSI are present), which tries to boot from
> > SCSI. The process goes ok until the / partition is mounted.
> > At this point the system panics, because it tries to mount sd1, not sd0.
> > I thought I could switch the disk to SCSI ID 1 and have it detected as sd1,
> > but its not true, it remains as sd0.
> > 
> > At this moment I have the system working, but with EIDE disk turned off.
> > 
> > Any insights would be appreciated.
> > 
> > Please send a copy of any response to my personal address, since I do not subscribe to this mailing list.
> > 
wagner@io.com
http://beta.internetional.com.br/~wagner




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