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From: lam@awod.com (Ken Lam)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Adding SCSI disks to BSDI...
Date: 2 Sep 1996 17:54:36 GMT
Organization: Integrated Technical Systems
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In article <507ev3$km4@canton.charm.net>, snowdog@charm.net says...
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>Hello Group,
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>Today we added our 5th 2Gig SCSI drive in our BSDI box (BSD/OS 2.1).
>The other four were added and function properly.  After adding the
>5th, I did a disksetup -i and it did not show sd05.  It is SCSI ID 5
>since we are using our tape drive as ID 4.  During the bootup, it
>acknowledge that it saw that drive and appeared to add the drive.  But
>when I go to /dev/ I only see the rsd's go as high as 3.  Any
>help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated...

Sean,

Almost any BSD based system has a _default_ limit of 4 SCSI drives.
I believe this was a limited growth mentality (kind of like the
640K limit on msdos based machines), who in the world would need
more than 4 drives :) .  You will have to reconfigure 
your kernel then makedev the new device(s).


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