Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: harddisk support | Date | Wed, 20 Jun 2001 23:34:39 -0600 (MDT) |
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Daljeet writes: > In the '/dev' tree, the device file entries for SCSI harddisks ranges from > '/dev/sda' to '/dev/sdp'. If I attach 17 scsi harddisks to a system, the > 17th harddisk is shown as '/dev/sdq' in '/proc/partitions' but there is no > entry in the '/dev' tree. If I try to access '/dev/sdq' either through > fdisk or through any other simple C programs, it gives error saying, can > not open device '/dev/sdq'. > > How can I access more than 16 harddisks?
Use the MAKEDEV script to make the extra /dev/sd* entries. Like:
cd /dev; MAKEDEV sdq sdr sds sdt sdu sdv sdw sdx sdy sdz sdaa ...
You can make up to 128 SCSI disks, all the way to /dev/sddx.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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