From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 22 02:12:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA12873 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 02:12:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA12847 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 02:12:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA01178 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 10:12:24 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Message-ID: <35654168.F0F30C3@tdx.co.uk> Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 10:12:08 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: problems with SCSI drives over sd9? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ) Regards, Karl Pielorz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message