Re: Strange Interaction between Symbios, AIC7XXX and Scsi Diskmodules

2000-02-09 Thread Yan-Fa Li
Hi, no not obvious, but the external storage device, a Rack Storage 12, assigns the addresses statically 0-3, 8-15. The SCSI card is on ID 7. All drives are accessible when put on the same controller. When split across two controllers, only the first four are accessible from the adaptec,

Re: Strange Interaction between Symbios, AIC7XXX and Scsi Diskmodules

2000-02-09 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Yan-Fa Li wrote: [snip] no not obvious, but the external storage device, a Rack Storage 12, assigns the addresses statically 0-3, 8-15. The SCSI card is on ID 7. All drives are accessible when put on the same controller. When split across two controllers, only the first

Re: Strange Interaction between Symbios, AIC7XXX and Scsi Diskmodules

2000-02-09 Thread Yan-Fa Li
Nope. That wasn't the problem either. The drives were split 1,2,3,8,9,10,11 with 1-8 being in a RAID5 array. It's something that goes on between the NCR and the AIC driver. I really don't think it's to do with IDs or anything physical. Either these two are duking it out in the background