Re: More than 5 SCSI disks? (/dev/sdf: ENXIO)

1999-03-10 Thread Jameson Burt
Hello. There are 5 SCSI disks happily running at sda - sde. The 6th disk is accepted as /dev/sdf, as the kernel output after lilo says. But fdisk /dev/sdf fails with Unable to open /dev/sdf. strace fdisk /dev/sdf gives open(/dev/sdf, O_RDWR)= -1 ENXIO (Device not

Re: More than 5 SCSI disks? (/dev/sdf: ENXIO)

1999-03-10 Thread Dr. Andreas Wehler
Jameson Burt wrote: Hello. There are 5 SCSI disks happily running at sda - sde. The 6th disk is accepted as /dev/sdf, as the kernel output after lilo says. But fdisk /dev/sdf fails with Unable to open /dev/sdf. ... You've probably already checked it, but I have often exceeded

Re: More than 5 SCSI disks? (/dev/sdf: ENXIO)

1999-03-10 Thread Dr. Andreas Wehler
Hello. Is it possible to run 2 Adaptec 2940UW simultaneously? Then we would consider to change Advansys by Adaptec. Thanks. Andreas Wehler -- CAD/CAM straessle GmbHTel.: (+49) 211 - 52740 - 228 Dr.-Ing. Andreas Wehler Fax.: (+49) 211 - 52740 - 280

Re: More than 5 SCSI disks? (/dev/sdf: ENXIO)

1999-03-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Dr. Andreas Wehler wrote: : Hello. : : Is it possible to run 2 Adaptec 2940UW simultaneously? Then : we would consider to change Advansys by Adaptec. Sure - you can run two 2940UW HBAs at the same time. I've done it here ... -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South

More than 5 SCSI disks? (/dev/sdf: ENXIO)

1999-03-09 Thread Dr. Andreas Wehler
Hello. There are 5 SCSI disks happily running at sda - sde. The 6th disk is accepted as /dev/sdf, as the kernel output after lilo says. But fdisk /dev/sdf fails with Unable to open /dev/sdf. strace fdisk /dev/sdf gives open(/dev/sdf, O_RDWR)= -1 ENXIO (Device not