Subject: Re: sdXX matching wrong
To: Steve Woodford <scw@netbsd.org>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baea.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 04/10/2000 20:00:16
According to Steve Woodford:
>
>That's likely to be the cause. ID#7 is normally reserved for the host
>adapter itself. So if you have a drive set to 7, you'll lose in subtle
>ways.

Yep, the scsi bus can do some pretty bizarre things when you clash
with the controller :-)

> Basically, you're limited to 7 drives on a normal scsi bus, and 15
>on `wide' scsi.
>

And in both cases the controller is normally id 7.

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