Messages in this thread | | | From | "Anthony Barbachan" <> | Subject | Fw: Disappearing SCSI drive when changing SCSI cards | Date | Wed, 22 Jul 1998 22:34:04 -0400 |
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I think this message got lost, so I'm reposting.
-----Original Message----- From: Anthony Barbachan <barbacha@Trill.cis.fordham.edu> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> Date: Tuesday, July 21, 1998 11:35 PM Subject: Disappearing SCSI drive when changing SCSI cards
>I have a system with 3 SCSI drives that is using an aha1542CF with kernel >2.0.34, loading its driver as a module. I changed the SCSI card to a >BIOS-less aha152x (also used the appropriate driver) an for some reason the >system was only able to detect the first two SCSI drives. I heard about a >limitation on the number of SCSI drives being set somewhere in the kernel, >but I do not know if that applies here. Does anyone know of anyway I can >get all the drives recognized. > > >PS > > On another note. Occasionally I get this error when trying to start >swapping to one of the drives. Something about 1024 blocks not supported. >swapon then freezes. If the system is up I can still do things (except >killing swapon). If the system is booting and enabling swapping through >fstab, the system freezes permanently. (same cause, swapon) Once the error >happens, its happens whenever I try to swap to the drive, even after >rebooting. However, if I run mkswap on it, swap starts to function on it >again, for an undeterminant number of times. As a workaround I am now >running mkswap before enabling swapping when starting up. Any ideas what >could be causing this? >
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