Multiple FireWire drives under FC2
Pete
pete at surfusa.net
Tue Jan 11 01:56:20 UTC 2005
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Pete wrote:
>
>> The firewire adapters are four (4) Oxford 911's and the Drives are
>> four (4) Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 200 GB drives, brand spanking new.
>
>
> How are they cabled inside? Using a master/slave jumper on each
> drive? Or Cable Select using a Cable Select cable?
>
> How are they seen by Linux? As SCSI drives or IDE drives? If SCSI,
> do they require any special support (like multiple LUN support) in
> order to see the slave drives?
>
They are cabled as master/slave, and I understand the issue is that
multiple LUN support is currently broken is the latest kernals. The
drives are seen as sbp2 drives. I understand the issue is the slave
drive info overwrites the master drive info, so only one drive is seen.
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