heather casler wrote:
> Hi All,
> I hope this is the right list for this question....please let me know if
> it's not. I've got an NEC Express Server 5800 120Ra2 with 500MHz cpu
> running RedHat v6.0 (v2.2.5-15 because the rpm upgrade to 2.2.5-22 isn't
> working properly, but that's another situation!)
> The problem I've having is when I attach one of the system's AHA-2944UW to
> the storage device, it initially sees all of the devices out on the storage
> box, but I can only access the first four. I've attached the dmesg from
> the system.
> Any ideas on why this is? How do I fix this so I can access all of the
> devices?
I had a similar problem, which is this: The 9th drive (4 on one channel
5 on
another of a buslogic bt-952) Is not visible. I used /dev/MAKEDEV to
add new
devices, but I believe there are not enough minor numbers allocated to
the major
8 scsi device, becuase the 9th device seems to "wrap around ". IE the
ninth
device appears to be the 3rd device. ie: I had 4 2 gig and 5 18 gig
drives, the
9th being 18 gig. In dmesg it reports being 2 gigs. I repeatedly
checked scsi
id's, and the buslogic diags show it in the right place... I also tried
(by
hand) mknod 144 for the dev/sdi device, and also hacking the MAKEDEV
script some,
but no cigar either
Also, I read the Howto's, the scsi programming howto's, posted
questions, etc. I
finally got rid of one of the 2 gig drives, and it is working (8 scsi
devs total
in machine). It seems to me that that changing MAKEDEV not to allocate
10 or so
extended partitions per drive would free up some minor numbers, but that
would
probably mean changes somewhere in compiled code? scsi module or
kernel? I'm
definitely not a low-level device programmer...
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