RE: SCSI Patches - mostly on/off-line stuff

2001-01-18 Thread Venkatesh Ramamurthy
In general, as SCSI becomes more networked, most approaches will want the initiator to figure out what is the current list of targets the initiator is connected to, rather than the targets trying to inform interested initiators whether the targets are coming on-line or going off-line.

RE: SCSI Patches - mostly on/off-line stuff

2001-01-18 Thread Venkatesh Ramamurthy
So I think rescanning should occur in the kernel automatically after every bus reset for every different kind of peripheral bus. Every peripheral bus, even parallel SCSI, I think has a bus reset: parallel SCSI, FC, 1394 - yes, ATA - ?, others - ? [Venkat]

RE: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-16 Thread Venkatesh Ramamurthy
Are your two SCSI controllers handled by the same driver or through different ones? If they're handled by two separate drivers, simply build that one you need to boot off into the kernel and build the other one as a module. [Venkatesh Ramamurthy] Different ones with mutiple

RE: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-16 Thread Venkatesh Ramamurthy
order to your liking. [Venkatesh Ramamurthy] I think there should be a better way to handle this , compiling is one of the options, but an end-user should not think of compiling. The end user needs to put an another card and connect drives and get his system up and running. He should