[7349] in linux-scsi channel archive
45 missing CDROM devices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Oehser)
Tue Oct 12 10:22:55 1999
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:19:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tom Oehser <tom@toms.net>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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> If I recall correctly, there is a limit on the number of additional
> devices recognized by "module" drivers as opposed to the drivers
> linked statically with the kernel.
>
> >From old comment in drivers/scsi/in2000.c
> NOTE:
> * When using this or any other SCSI driver as a module, you'll
> * find that with the stock kernel, at most _two_ SCSI hard
> * drives will be linked into the device list (ie, usable).
You mean, it is *supposed* to say it detected the devices, show them in
/proc/scsi, give no error messages, and not really creaete the devices?
I've been sending emails to driver authors, changing kernel versions, and
pulling my hair out, because I have a stack of scsi changers that I want
to run on a module loaded scsi card, and only the first 2 will work...
What is the _right_ way to fix this? (Right= it works with the stock
kernel to insmod a scsi driver that detects 47 CDROM LUNs.) Can't we at
least return an _error_ when it fails?
-Tom
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