Changing SCSI controller

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John Gray opined (on Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 01:15:53PM -0700):
| Shaukat Manji wrote:
| 
| > Hi All,
| > Is there a quick way to upgrade to a different brand scsi controller?
| > Normally, we use backupedge to create a master backup and then reload
| > sco openserver from scratch with new scsi controller and after this
| > restore just the data portion etc.
| > Is it possible to re-link with a new btld and swap scsi controllers?
| > If anyone has done this , please let me know.
| > Thanks,
| > Shaukat
| 
| Change the HBA driver name to auto in /etc/conf/cf.d/mscsi and
| relink/reboot.

Auto lets the kernel try all the adapter drivers that you have linked
into it.  If the kernel still only has the one old driver, you'll
accomplish nothing.

You also need to link in the other driver(s) you might want to use.

http://aplawrence.com/cgi-bin/ta.pl?104062

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