From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 2 07:57:02 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id HAA07857 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Feb 1995 07:57:02 -0800 Received: from 7dragons.fc.dna.mil ([192.149.217.20]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA07843 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 1995 07:57:00 -0800 Received: (from mccrory@localhost) by 7dragons.fc.dna.mil (8.6.8/8.6.6) id IAA00250 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Feb 1995 08:58:02 -0700 From: "Roy A. Mccrory" Message-Id: <199502021558.IAA00250@7dragons.fc.dna.mil> Subject: Re: too many scsi disks - thanks To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 08:58:02 -0700 (MST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 4458 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In answer to my question >>Hello. >>I am trying to add a Toshiba cd-rom to my system and get a 'too many scsi disks" stuff deleted >>Too many scsi disks..(3 > 2) reconfigure kernel <--------*********** ... Peter Dufault replied ... >Your kernel has a maximum of two SCSI disks. For 1.1.5 you'll have to ... >BUT the bigger mystery to me is why that Toshiba CD rom is coming on line >as a type 0 direct access device. It should come on as a type 5 >read only device. As an example, here is my NEC CD-ROM: ... Thanks also to From: Tom Samplonius From: osyjm@schizo.coe.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) for your replys. This time I added 2 extra sd? to my config file and got the following msgs. ... FreeBSD 1.1.5.1(RELEASE) (VIDRAGONS) #0: Thu Feb 2 07:25:48 MST 1995 mccrory@7dragons:/usr/src/sys/compile/7DRAGONS ... aha0: reading board settings, dma=5 int=11 (bus speed defaulted) aha0 at 0x330-0x333 irq 11 drq 5 on isa aha0 waiting for scsi devices to settle aha0 targ 0 lun 0: type 0(direct) fixed SCSI1 aha0 targ 0 lun 0: sd0: 510MB (1045242 total sec), 1546 cyl, 11 head, 61 sec, bytes/sec 512 aha0 targ 1 lun 0: type 0(direct) fixed SCSI2 aha0 targ 1 lun 0: sd1: 520MB (1065036 total sec), 2493 cyl, 5 head, 85 sec, bytes/sec 512 aha0 targ 5 lun 0: type 0(direct) fixed SCSI2 aha0 targ 5 lun 0: sd2(aha0:5:0): illegal request sd2 could not mode sense (4). Using ficticious geometry sd2(aha0:5:0): not ready sd2: could not get size sd2: 0MB (0 total sec), 0 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, bytes/sec 512 aha0 targ 6 lun 0: type 1(sequential) removable SCSI1 aha0 targ 6 lun 0: st0: density code 0x0, drive empty ... The cdrom drive was supplied by Silicon Graphics for one of our Indigos. Perhaps they do something to it to justify the price they charge for it! - so it may not be a stock Toshiba drive! Here is my config file in case I've done something especially dumb! # # 7DRAGONS-- Roy's 486/33 machine with AH1540b family disks # # $Id: VIDRAGONS,v 2.10 1995/01/27 08:56:59 roy Exp $ # machine "i386" cpu "I386_CPU" cpu "I486_CPU" #cpu "I586_CPU" ident VIDRAGONS timezone 7 dst maxusers 10 maxfdescs 2048 #Max file descriptors per process #options MATH_EMULATE #Support for x87 emulation options INET #InterNETworking options ISOFS #ISO File System options NFS #Network File System options PCFS #MSDOS File System options "COMPAT_43" #Compatible with BSD 4.3 options "TCP_COMPAT_42" #TCP/IP compatible with 4.2 options XSERVER #Xserver options UCONSOLE #X Console support options "FAT_CURSOR" #block cursor in syscons or pccons options GATEWAY #Host is a Gateway (forwards packets) options "SCSI_DELAY=15" #Be pessimistic about Joe SCSI device options "NCONS=4" #4 virtual consoles options SYSVSHM options "SHMMAXPGS=64" options SYSVSEM options SYSVMSG options IPBROADCASTECHO=1 options IPMASKAGENT=1 options MULTICAST options MROUTING options FIFO options ALLOW_CONFLICT_IRQ #mport serial & sound card? options "EXCLUDE_MPU401" options EXCLUDE_GUS options EXCLUDE_GUS_IODETECT options EXCLUDE_SB_EMULATION options EXCLUDE_SBPRO options "EXCLUDE_SB16" options EXCLUDE_PAS options EXCLUDE_PRO_MIDI config "386bsd" root on sd0 swap on sd0 and sd1 dumps on sd0 controller isa0 controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 disk fd1 at fdc0 drive 1 controller aha0 at isa? port "IO_AHA0" bio irq 11 drq 5 vector ahaintr controller scbus0 device sd0 device sd1 device sd2 device sd3 device cd0 #Only need one of these, the code dynamically grows device st0 device sc0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 1 vector scintr device npx0 at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty irq 4 vector siointr device sio1 at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 vector siointr device lpt0 at isa? port? tty irq 7 vector lptintr device ed0 at isa? port 0x280 net irq 5 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr device snd2 at isa? port 0x220 irq 7 drq 1 vector sbintr device snd1 at isa? port 0x388 device pca0 at isa? tty pseudo-device loop pseudo-device ether pseudo-device log pseudo-device sl 2 pseudo-device ppp 2 pseudo-device pty 16 pseudo-device speaker pseudo-device swappager pseudo-device vnodepager pseudo-device devpager ... Again, thanks for your help.