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Date:      Fri, 22 May 1998 10:12:08 +0100
From:      Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   problems with SCSI drives over sd9?
Message-ID:  <35654168.F0F30C3@tdx.co.uk>

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Hi,

I'm running SMP 3.0-CURRENT from about a week ago, and I've run into
problems adding drives to the system...

I've just added another 4 aging SCSI drives to the system, which have become
sd9, sd10, sd11 & sd12 respectively...

The kernel finds them, assigns them their correct sdX number, but I can't
use anything above sd9...

I've made sure the disks are partitioned and labled (and that all checks out
OK), and I've made sure the devices for them exist (e.g. 'cd /dev;sh MAKEDEV
sd9;sh MAKEDEV sd9s1c' etc. (I'm using all the disks in 'dedicated' mode)...

Basically the same procedure which has worked for sd0 through sd9 doesn't
appear to work for sd10...

Although I can see the fdisk and disklabel output any attempt to access the
drive either results in 'device not configured' or 'input / output error'.

I can post all the info (dmesg, kernel config, disklabel / fdisk output
etc.) - but the email would be over 200 lines, so I thought I'd ask first...
(If anyone is willing to help I can post the whole lot to them private
mail)...

The system is running SMP and I wire down the SCSI drives (in case that
matters)...

Is there some default limit for the number of sdX devices I should change? -
or is someone going to tell me their hex or something (e.g. sdas1e <g>)


Regards,

Karl Pielorz

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