RHEL3 update 3 and scsi_hostadapter

[James_Martin at ao.uscourts.gov]

I had the same problem.. what I ended up doing was disconnected the 
external storage cabinet during the build.. But this sounds more like a 
bug than anything else.  File it with Red Hat.

James S. Martin, RHCE
Contractor
Administrative Office of the United States Courts
Washington, DC
(202) 502-2394

kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 10/12/2004 06:09:36 PM:

> Be careful when building via kickstart with RHEL3 and update 3, if
> you have multiple scsi_hostadapters.  Whichever adapter the PCI scan
> sees first will be aliased to scsi_hostadapter in modprobe.conf.
> 
> Here's what happended to me...
> 
> I ran my normal kickstart scripts on a Compaq server with a cpqarray
> scsi_hostadapter and a lpfc scsi_hostadapter.  The cpqarray is, of
> course, the Compaq local SCSI array, and lpfc is the driver for the
> Emulex HBA fibre card.
> 
> Using RHEL3 update 3, the lpfc driver is detected right out of the
> box (good), and on this server it was detected *before* the local 
cpqarray
> driver (bad).  In my kickstart scripts I have "clearpart --all", and 
since
> the SAN drive was detected first, the SAN drive was wiped clean, and a
> new OS was installed on the SAN -- not *at all* what I wanted.
> 
> So, I'm open to suggestions as to an elagant way to create a kickstart
> install that forces the order of the scsi_hostadapters.
> 
> Jason
> 
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