Interesting SATA/SCSI question/problem

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 02:20:18PM -0400, Lance F. Squire wrote:
> I just installed a new SATA drive in my computer.
> 
> Previously to this it only had 1 IDE drive (hda) 1 CD-Rom (hdc) and 2 
> external SCSI drives.(sda and sdb If I recall)
> 
> The problem is, when I activate the SATA drive, it comes up as sda and 
> the external SCSI drives are ignored. (The Bios sees them, Windows sees 
> them, Though Windows98 dosen't see the SATA drive(Non issue))
> 
> Is there a way I can get FC3-64 to see both the SATA and SCSI drives?
> 
> Where should I be looking?

Load the driver for the scsi card.  By default linux supports having an
alias for ONE scsi card to auto load when something asks for
/dev/sdseomthing.  Once one driver is loaded it won't try that again,
so since sata shows as scsi, it will never try to load another scsi
driver automatically.  Just load it manually.

On debian this is done by adding the driver name to /etc/modules (not
modules.conf which is something else entirely) which makes it load that
module at boot automatically.  Hopefully FC3 has some similar method to
specify modules to load at boot.

Lennart Sorensen
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