Re: Boot order of LSI MPT Fusion devices controllable?

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 12:20:24PM -0500, Richard F. Rebel wrote:
> Well, the difference is that the fiber channel card seems to boot first,
> and thus reorders the scsi bus.  If I attach the fiber channel cables to
> the switch (making all of our storage visible) and re-probe the scsi bus
> by hand using the /dev interface, access to the SAN is fine etc.  Upon
> reboot with the fc connected, my system panics because now the root
> drive is no longer where it thinks it should be (sda is now a device on
> the fiber channel switch fabric).
> 
> Is there a way to control this process or to mitigate the problem?  I
> really need the system to boot properly off of local disk whether or not
> the fc is connected or the devices available.

The fusion driver uses the pci_driver model, so cards are discovered in
PCI bus order.  If you put the existing cards at lower PCI device IDs,
they'll be discovered first.

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