RE: [suse-sparc] How tdo I add new drives ?

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    From: "Solarisexpert.com" <submissions@solarisexpert.com>
    Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 08:23:23 -0400
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    Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] How tdo I add new drives ?
    

    The man page for MAKEDEV specifies that MAKEDEV supports up to 8 SCSI
    devices. Therefore sdh will be the last one. I tried MAKEDEV update after
    installing the drives with the option of listing just the modification
    withouti nstalling them. It wa not going to add any new drives.

    Drives are Fibre-Channel, so no termination involved. The drives are seen by
    the kernel, as highlighted by the logs I attached.

    I think I need to make the nodes myself in /dev using mknod but I need to
    know how to find out major/minor number to identify the device.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Erric Gilbert [mailto:e@erric.com]
    Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 12:26 AM
    To: suse-sparc@suse.com
    Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] How tdo I add new drives ?

    That is odd, I am on a machine that has up to j with no special config
    on my part.

    Have you checked your SCSI terminiation?

    In the /dev dir do you have device entries for more then sdh?
    I have 256 entries.

    If for some reason you do not have these entries, you should be able to
    create them with the MAKEDEV script in /dev. This is a package that
    might not be installed by default so you may need to add this.

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Solarisexpert.com [mailto:submissions@solarisexpert.com]
    > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 1:21 PM
    > To: suse-sparc@suse.com
    > Subject: [suse-sparc] How tdo I add new drives ?
    >
    >
    > Greetings,
    >
    > I have 14 disks connected to my Sun box. I can only see up to
    > /dev/sdh (8
    > disks in total)
    >
    > how do I add the definition for /dev/sdi and /dev/sdj etc etc ?
    >
    > The drives are visible to teh controller (I know from the fcal logs).
    >
    > Thanks in advance
    >
    > Raoul Volpe
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