Re: 4Bay Firewire Dilema

From: Stefan Richter <stefanr_at_s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date: Wed 27 Oct 2004 - 22:19:17 CEST
Message-ID: <43781321ffaaf6a9cbbce4705b90928b@localhost>

aashram wrote:
> I have tried redhat 9 (2.4.), mandrake 10.1, knoppix even linspire
> but I cannot get linux to see all 4 drives. Instead it only sees
> 1 drive from each bridge board.

As Andreas already posted, this may be due to a flaw in newer 2.6
kernels and may perhaps work with drivers from circa 2.6.2. But it
should work at least with kernel 2.4, except if you happen to run a
really old kernel 2.4. There are two ways how multi-unit devices
announce their logical units to the host computer; newer 2.6 kernels
are only dealing with one of the two ways while 2.4 kernels understand
both, I do not remember though since exactly which version kernel 2.4
has been able to access both types of multi-unit devices.

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