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Re: more than 16 scsi disks

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (quintus@us.ibm.com)
Tue Jul 18 11:05:14 2000

From:	quintus@us.ibm.com
To:	vasuvarma@mailcity.com
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Date:	Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:03:27 -0600
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You can use MAKEDEV sd** for up to sdz (see man pages)in /dev.  After that
for sdaa and above you'll need to make the nodes with "mknod" and track
your major and minor numbers:
i.e.
mknod sdaa b 8 222
mknod sdaa1 b 8 223

Sincerely,


Quintus Schulzke              HERE LIES LESTER MOORE
Test Engineer, Disk Adapter Test   SHOT 4 TIMES WITH A .44
IBM Tucson                    NO LES
(520) 799-5798, 8-321-5798         NO MOORE  --tombstone in Tombstone, AZ

>When I try to load driver with more than 16 scsi disks, >the system does
not map more than 16. Is there any thing >to be changed ? host->max_id is
set to 32.
>
>thanx in advance,
>vasu.



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