Managers,
We ran into something unexpected this past Saturday. We came in to
install a 5th KZPAA SCSI adapter in one of our AlphaServer 8400s.
After installing the card & checking the "init", "show conf" & "show
dev" to ensure that the new hardware was detected, we booted the
generic kernel in preparation for building a new kernel. During boot
of the generic kernel we did not see the expected messages for the
new SCSI adapter. After some investigation we found by using "grep
psiop /sys/conf/GENERIC" that there are only 4 entries for this
particular SCSI adapter in the generic kernel (psiop0 through
psiop3). I manually updated the configuration file in /sys/conf with
the appropriate "bus" & "controller" lines for this SCSI adapter &
built a new kernel. We booted this kernel & the appropriate messages
were displayed during boot. Apparently when the generic kernel was
setup it was assumed no one would install this many KZPAA SCSI
adapters.
We are running DU V4.0D on this particular machine, but I checked a
machine running TU V4.0G with the same results.
I was just wondering if anyone else had encountered this problem?
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[ Randy Rodgers
[ randy.rodgers_at_ci.ft-wayne.in.us
[ Senior Systems Programmer
[ Allen County/City of Fort Wayne
[ Information Systems
[ (219)427-5727
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Received on Mon Feb 12 2001 - 16:04:36 NZDT