First, let me say thanks to everyone that responded to my original
post on how to configure a Seagate ST19171W drive (9.1 gigabytes)
attached to a Digital AlphaStation 500 running Digital Unix 4.0.
There were a number of responses but the answer that worked in my
situation was the SCSI device number of the drive set to greater
than 7. A number of people pointed out that even though a wide
SCSI bus will support targets 0-15 DU4.0 will only support target
numbers 0-7 (In my case the bus itself is dev # 7).
Once I changed the SCSI # of the disk to 1 and rebooted, everything
began to work. When I opened SysMan and used the Disk Configuration
Application to view the disk I found that the appropriate disk
drivers (rrz1N and rz1N) had been created by the system. I never
used MAKEDEV to create /dev/rrz1 and the device rrz1 did not exist
in /dev prior to my changing the SCSI drive number. I guess SysMan
read the disk attributes from the ST19171W drive or perhaps the CAM
program created them. At this point I decided to try SysMan for setting
up the drive. Using SysMan I created the 4.2BSD partitions that I
wanted. All that remained was to mount the drive!
Thanks again for everyones help!
Bob
Sisk
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- Robert B. Sisk, Ph.D. NetAdmin rsisk_at_Marine.UNC.EDU -
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Received on Thu May 15 1997 - 20:23:43 NZST