On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:
> And one other minor detail should be mentioned, Jon. Some, but not
> all linux distributions disable the multiple lun scsi bus scans in
> order to speed up the boot process. Co-incidentally, some changers
> have their robot mechanisms located at the same scsi buss address as
> the drive itself, but at the next higher logical unit number, or
> 'lun' in the slang. Those distributions that disable this must have
> their kernels re-compiled with this option enabled in order to find
> and identify the changers robotics at boot time. Without that, it
> won't be found or usable. Red Hat is one such distribution whose
> default kernels do not spend the extra (maximum of 49 seconds if the
> exact scsi-1 protocol is followed) time during the boot to do this.
Try adding something like `max_scsi_luns=7' to the kernel command line.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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