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Problem with sdf at scsi1

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr. Andreas Wehler)
Wed Mar 10 07:37:29 1999

Date:	Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:05:34 +0100
From: "Dr. Andreas Wehler" <Andreas.Wehler@due.cc-straessle.com>
Reply-To: Andreas.Wehler@due.cc-straessle.com
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu

Hello.

 There are 5 SCSI disks happily running at sda - sde.  The 6th
disk is accepted as /dev/sdf, as the kernel output after lilo
says.  But fdisk /dev/sdf fails with "Unable to open /dev/sdf".
Other progs as "dd if=/dev/sdf of=/dev/null ..." work neither.
strace fdisk /dev/sdf gives

   open("/dev/sdf", O_RDWR)                = -1 ENXIO (Device not configured)
   open("/dev/sdf", O_RDONLY)              = -1 ENXIO (Device not configured)

 The physical drive which is expected as sdf sits together with 2
others in a separate external HP-SCSI-box, which is also
terminated externally.  All 6 disks are Ultra Wide SCSI.  Cabling
is 1.60m at scsi0 (internal bus) and scsi1 (external bus).

 What is missing here?  Any help much appreciated.  Details
follow, thank you.

     Andreas Wehler



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Debian 2.0
# uname -a
Linux classix 2.0.34 #3 Thu Jan 14 10:38:59 CET 1999 i686 unknown



# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices: 
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00   (-------------> sda)
  Vendor: IBM      Model: DDRS-39130W      Rev: S92A
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00   (-------------> sdb)
  Vendor: IBM      Model: DDRS-39130W      Rev: S92A
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00   (-------------> sdc)
  Vendor: IBM      Model: DDRS-39130W      Rev: S92A
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
  Vendor: HP       Model: C1533A           Rev: A708
  Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
  Vendor: TEAC     Model: CD-ROM CD-532S   Rev: 1.0A
  Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
  Vendor: YAMAHA   Model: CRW4260          Rev: 1.0j
  Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00   (-------------> sdd)
  Vendor: SEAGATE  Model: ST19171N         Rev: 0024
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00   (-------------> sde)
  Vendor: SEAGATE  Model: ST19171N         Rev: 0024
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00   (-------------> sdf)
  Vendor: SEAGATE  Model: ST39140N         Rev: 1281
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02



# ls -al /dev/sdf*
brw-rw----   1 root     disk       8,  80 Jun 24  1998 /dev/sdf
brw-rw----   1 root     disk       8,  81 Jun 24  1998 /dev/sdf1
brw-rw----   1 root     disk       8,  90 Jun 24  1998 /dev/sdf10
brw-rw----   1 root     disk       8,  91 Jun 24  1998 /dev/sdf11
brw-rw----   1 root     disk       8,  92 Jun 24  1998 /dev/sdf12
brw-rw----   1 root     disk       8,  93 Jun 24  1998 /dev/sdf13
brw-rw----   1 root     disk       8,  94 Jun 24  1998 /dev/sdf14
brw-rw----   1 root     disk       8,  95 Jun 24  1998 /dev/sdf15
brw-rw----   1 root     disk       8,  82 Jun 24  1998 /dev/sdf2
brw-rw----   1 root     disk       8,  83 Jun 24  1998 /dev/sdf3
brw-rw----   1 root     disk       8,  84 Jun 24  1998 /dev/sdf4
brw-rw----   1 root     disk       8,  85 Jun 24  1998 /dev/sdf5
brw-rw----   1 root     disk       8,  86 Jun 24  1998 /dev/sdf6
brw-rw----   1 root     disk       8,  87 Jun 24  1998 /dev/sdf7
brw-rw----   1 root     disk       8,  88 Jun 24  1998 /dev/sdf8
brw-rw----   1 root     disk       8,  89 Jun 24  1998 /dev/sdf9



# dmesg
2077
(scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 9/0
(scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
(scsi0) BIOS enabled, IO Port 0xd000, IRQ 15
(scsi0) IO Memory at 0xe3000000, MMAP Memory at 0x8805000
(scsi0) Resetting channel
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 413 instructions downloaded
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.0.14/3.2.4
       <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter>
scsi : 1 host.
(scsi0:0:-1:-1) Scanning channel for devices.
(scsi0:0:0:0) Using wide (16 bit) transfers.
(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 20.0MHz, offset 8.
  Vendor: IBM       Model: DDRS-39130W       Rev: S92A
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
(scsi0:0:1:0) Using wide (16 bit) transfers.
(scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 20.0MHz, offset 8.
  Vendor: IBM       Model: DDRS-39130W       Rev: S92A
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
(scsi0:0:2:0) Using wide (16 bit) transfers.
(scsi0:0:2:0) Synchronous at 20.0MHz, offset 8.
  Vendor: IBM       Model: DDRS-39130W       Rev: S92A
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
(scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset 8.
  Vendor: HP        Model: C1533A            Rev: A708
  Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
  Vendor: TEAC      Model: CD-ROM CD-532S    Rev: 1.0A
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
(scsi0:0:6:0) Refusing synchronous negotiation; using asynchronous transfers.
  Vendor: YAMAHA    Model: CRW4260           Rev: 1.0j
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape 2 SCSI cdroms 3 SCSI disks total.
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17850000 [8715 MB] [8.7 GB]
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17850000 [8715 MB] [8.7 GB]
SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17850000 [8715 MB] [8.7 GB]
Partition check:
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 >
 sdb: sdb1
 sdc: sdc1 sdc2
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed.
3c59x.c:v0.99E 5/12/98 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
loading device 'eth0'...
eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xb400, 00:10:4b:b7:bd:7e, IRQ 10
  8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/NWay Autonegotiation interface.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
scsi1 : AdvanSys SCSI 3.1D: PCI Ultra 16 CDB: IO B000/F, IRQ 11
scsi : 2 hosts.
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST19171N          Rev: 0024
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdd at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST19171N          Rev: 0024
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sde at scsi1, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST39140N          Rev: 1281
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdf at scsi1, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
SCSI device sdd: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17783112 [8683 MB] [8.7 GB]
 sdd: sdd1 sdd2 sdd3 < sdd5 sdd6 sdd7 sdd8 >
SCSI device sde: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17783112 [8683 MB] [8.7 GB]
 sde: sde1 sde2 < sde5 sde6 sde7 sde8 >
Adding Swap: 119996k swap-space (priority -1)
Adding Swap: 114996k swap-space (priority -2)
Disc change detected.
VFS: Disk change detected on device 0b:00
Disc change detected.
VFS: Disk change detected on device 0b:00



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