Passing the noscsi option at boot shouldn't matter. I boot with that option simply so it boots a bit faster and I still get scsi emulation for my drives. I'm off to Denver today so I won't really have time to look further into this until later- perhaps tonite. I can say this though; when you do a cat /proc/scsi/scsi anything that shows up is ON THE SCSI BUS. The devices are separated in the output at the "T". laterz