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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Subject: Re: 4 drive limit on SCSI?
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Organization: St. Peter's College, US
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 03:44:54 GMT
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In article <4j7d18$lp4@host.vivid.net>, weasel@vivid.net (The Weasel) writes:
> I was in the process of adding my 5th SCSI drive when I realized that
> the kernal would assign sd0-sd4, but once booted, there was no
> /dev/sd4... only /dev/sd0-3.
>
> Can I somehow get sd4 and sd5?
Sure:
su
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV sd4 sd5
Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
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