Bryan J. Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 14:51 +0100, Farkas Levente wrote: > >>hi, >>we've got a server with a 8 port 3ware card and 2 ide system disks. > > > Are you saying you have 2 IDE disks on the 3Ware? > Or they are connected to the mainboard's ATA channels? two more on the mainboard. >>now we'd like to replace the ide disks with scsi disks or sata disks >>(these also recognized as scsi in the kernel). > > > On which device? Are you saying you want to remove the IDE disks from > the mainboard's ATA channels, and use the 3Ware volumes to boot? > > Or other? leave 8 on the 3ware (these are the data disks) and replace the mainboard 2. >>if i change the order in bios, the kernel still use as >>3ware scsi0. if i use scsihosts kernel param or load the scsi driver >>(through modprobe.conf) in a reverse order then the kernel hang forever >>during the initialization of the 3ware driver. > > > It hangs? Or you get a kernel panic? hangs, there is no opps:-( -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"