Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Feb 2000 13:34:51 -0500 (EST) | From | Ricky Beam <> | Subject | Re: scsi problem - to many drives??? |
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On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Adrian Reber wrote: >I have a computer with 7 scsi drives attached to it. >When the driver is loaded, I can see all 7 drives. >sda, sdb, ..., sdf. >Just a bit later the partition checked is happening and only >The first 5 drives are visible ( sda to sde ) ...
This is a module limitation... the scsi structures are static so the kernel needs to know how many drives are in the system. This is calculated at boot by initializing all the scsi controllers. In the case of modules, that doesn't work -- the scsi core has to be loaded before the scsi controller (chicken and the egg.) There are #define's to set the amount of slack for disks, cdroms, and tapes.
In the 2.3 series, it's a configuration option. In previous kernels, it's in drivers/scsi/hosts.h (look for EXTRA_DEVS.)
--Ricky
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