Yeah, major 8 should actually allow 16 devices (256 minor numbers, each disk uses
16 [1st for the whole
disk and the rest for the partitions] which allows 16 devices).
Documentation/devices.txt should show the
major numbers that are now used for the rest of the SCSI disks (devices.tex was
removed a couple
version ago, IIRC). Really you should be fine once you add the device nodes
(whole disk minors being:
0,16,32,48,64,80, 96, etc.) and it should be good. The other major numbers
start at 65.
You can always cat /proc/scsi/scsi to make sure that linux did, in fact, find all
the disks which are there.
HTH
Brian
Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 02:16:19PM -0500, Brian Ristuccia wrote:
> > How do I go about having more than 8 SCSI disks? I made the /dev/sdhX,
> > /dev/sdiX, etc. files, but I'm not sure what else needs to be changed.
> >
> > In particular, I'm tempted to change N_SD_MAJORS in sd.h, but I have a
> > feeling that's for the major number (which also happens to be 8) rather than
> > the maximum number of disks allowed.
>
> Up to 128 SCSI disks you don't have to change anything, just make the
> devices according to Documentation/devices.tex, unless you want to have the
> SCSI driver in module, in which case you should check drivers/scsi/hosts.h
> and edit SD_EXTRA_DEVS define if needed.
>
> Cheers,
> Jakub
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