On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 02:29:16PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > BIOS doesn't show any information about master/slave disks. I played > around with the setup but with no result. > > I've got an ASUSTEK P2B-S mothercard with Ultra-2 SCSI contoller (SCSI > storage > controller: Adaptec AIC-7890). (in some postings I saw a formatted > description of the > hardware configuration, is that obtained by a command or from some > file?) > > Here are relevant parts of files in my /proc directory: > > /proc/pci > Bus 0, device 6, function 0: > SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7890/1 (rev 0). > Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. BIST capable. IRQ 9. > Master Capable. Latency=3 > 2. Min Gnt=39.Max Lat=25. > I/O at 0xb000. > Non-prefetchable 64 bit memory at 0xe1800000. > Bus 0, device 1, function 0: > PCI bridge: Intel 440BX - 82443BX AGP (rev 2). > Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=136. > Bus 0, device 0, function 0: > Host bridge: Intel 440BX - 82443BX Host (rev 2). > Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=64. > Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe4000000. > > /proc/scsi/scsi > > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 > Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-34560D Rev: DC1B > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 > Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-34560D Rev: DC1B > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > > > Does that explain anything? It explains that your disks are scsi disks, where there is no master/slave distinction.
It ist not clear however what the BIOS thinks about the order of the devices. The adaptec also has a setup program to specify what should be the boot device. When you know what the BIOS recognizes as the first, second, ... drive you can tell that LILO by the disk section: DISK=/dev/sda bios=0x80 DISK=/dev/sdb bios=0x81 This is to correct LILO's guess that may well be different from the BIOS's one (which could be the reason for a not-working LILO. Nils -- *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* | Quotes from the net: L> Linus Torvalds, W> Winfried Truemper | | L>this is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | W>Umh, oh. What do you mean by "special easter release"?. Will it quit | * W>working today and rise on easter? *
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