On Samstag 05 September 2009, Rohit wrote: > Hi there, > > I rejoin the list after 5-6 years. Was able to fix most of the things > myself but this one has me totally bowled over. > > I have an IDE disk enclosure (can house 2 disks per IDE channel, a total of > 4 currently plugged in) which makes IDE disks available to the main > computer via 2x USB 2.0 connection (One USB 2.0 port connected to IDE > adapter). The problem I have is that the computer is able to see only 1 > IDE disk per channel. At a time, as a result, my server can only see 2 > disks instead of 4 connected, one disk per channel only. > > I have tried all possible combinations of jumpers (master/slave, > cable-select, force-slave-present) for each pair. > > Interestingly - Windows XP / YetAnotherReiserFS GUI is able to see/read all > 4 (2 pairs) disks so I think it is something that needs fixing in Linux > kernel/drivers and the enclosure box is not the source of problem. > I confirm individual disks are fine as well. > I am currently running Linux 2.6.27-gentoo-r8. > > Has anyone else encountered this problem before ? /proc/config.gz is also > attached. > > Thanks in advance, > Rohit >
# CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN is not set enable that.
