Re: SCSI/IDE Drive number ordering

[Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer]

address@hidden (Joe Krahn) writes:

> I installed a IDE drive to a system that boots from a SCSI disk. This
> causes GRUB to increment all SCSI disk numbers. Not exactly a bug, but I
> think GRUB should have seperate nomenclature for IDE/SCSI. (For example,
> in IRIX a disk is pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0))
> The 'detailed' specification could be optional. There should at least be
> a flag for "SCSI drives are first".

Sadly, GRUB uses the BIOS to get the drive list and I don't think there are
any ways to know wether a disk is scsi or ide... Moreover, your bios has
probably an option which says "SCSI drives are first".
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Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer              E-Mail : address@hidden
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