[Gllug] Linux on a box with mixed discs

[Andrew Halliwell]

And verily, didst Chris Bell announce to the hordes:
> 
> Hello,
>    I have been trying to get (Debian) Linux to install and boot correctly on
> a tower box with a mixture of IDE and SCSI discs. The motherboard is able to
> access 2 IDE chains plus 50pin SE SCSI, wide SE SCSI, and wide LVD SCSI.
>    The aim is to build a multimedia-capable box, so I have fitted 2 IDE hard
> discs, an IDE CD/DVD reader, an IDE CD/DVD R/W, and a fast LVD SCSI drive. I
> would also like to connect additional SCSI drives, 50pin SE SCSI scanners,
> etc.
>    I find that booting hangs because the system tries to fsck.ext2 check the
> filesystem on the SCSI drive before the SCSI bus has been scanned for
> devices, so the drive is not seen.
>    Is this a well-known problem with a standard work-around? I have sent a
> bug report, but it does not appear to have been picked up. I first tried the
> Sarge Testing installer, and have since tried the Woody system, with the
> same result. Knoppix, of course, just works.

Would putting the scsi drivers in an initrd file (and thus, loading the
modules at initial boot) cause the busses to be scanned before it got to the
filesystem check stage?

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