you need to MAKEDEV the extra drive letters I suspect. I ran into this on my scsi array.
eg Linux will only see to /dev/sdh by default, to go past this, cd /dev then ./MAKEDEV sdi then reboot. fdisk should now work. regards Thing On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 21:12, Nate Campi wrote: > For years I've been using hardware raid on compaq smart2 cards to handle > hosts with 10-20 disks. The firmware presents each volume as a device to > the OS so there's usually only a couple "disks" from linux's point of > view. > > Now I have an aic7xxx card hooked straight up to an array with 14 disks > in it. Linux only sees the first 8. There's apparently only 128 device > nodes available for SCSI and all the possible partitions on each disk > is allowing for only my first 8 disks. > > It seems that you might be able to re-create the dev filesystem and only > use the device nodes you need. Each of my disks (that I can fdisk > anyways) has only a single linux raid autodetect partition on it. The > kernel certainly has enough nodes for this setup. > > Is there a way to get Linux (2.4.18-686-smp kernel) to see all the > disks? > > I don't want some patch like > <URL:http://www.suse.de/~garloff/linux/scsi-many/> since I run debian > kernels. > > TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]