Adding a external scsi disk

From: Javier M. Pereira <javier_at_eui.upm.es>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 21:06:33 +0100 (MET)

Hi all,

  We have an alpha 2000 running osf 3.0

  We just have an internal scsi disk and we want to add an external
  scsi disk. The disk we want to add is not a DEC disk, so its
  specifications are not in /etc/disktab.

  We gave the disk scsi ID 5 (and tried with 4 too)

  We followed the manual, boot from genvmunix, created a new kernel
  using doconfig, and finally, after booting from that new kernel we
  created the new nodes with MAKEDEV rz4.
  So far everything went fine.

  BUT when we mede a disklabel

    # disklabel -w -r rz4 RZxx

    It did not work, RZxx was not found.

  Last week we did the same operation with another disk (not a DEC disk
  either) and it worked with RZxx, and RZxx was not in /etc/disktab.

  Is it a problem of the disk?
  Is it a problem of the kernel configuration?
  Is it a problem of /etc/disktab?

  What is happening to us? Any clues will be appreciated,
  TIA

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