On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 12:19:20AM +1100, Ivan Teliatnikov wrote: > What is for > max_scsi_luns=1 > > System has internal SCSI drive and 2 IDE cdroms. What should be a > max_scsi_luns?
from /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/BootPrompt-HOWTO.gz (one of the ldp howtos, in the doc-linux-text package): 6.1.1. Maximum Probed LUNs (`max_scsi_luns=') Each SCSI device can have a number of `sub-devices' contained within itself. The most common example is any of the SCSI CD-ROMs that handle more than one disk at a time. Each CD is addressed as a `Logical Unit Number' (LUN) of that particular device. But most devices, such as hard disks, tape drives and such are only one device, and will be assigned to LUN zero. The problem arises with single LUN devices with bad firmware. Some poorly designed SCSI devices (old and unfortunately new) can not handle being probed for LUNs not equal to zero. They will respond by locking up, and possibly taking the whole SCSI bus down with them. The kernel has a configuration option that allows you to set the maximum number of probed LUNs. The default is to only probe LUN zero, to avoid the problem described above. To specify the number of probed LUNs at boot, one enters `max_scsi_luns=n' as a boot arg, where n is a number between one and eight. To avoid problems as described above, one would use n=1 to avoid upsetting such broken devices 6.1.2. SCSI Logging (`scsi_logging=') Supplying a non-zero value to this boot argument turns on logging of all SCSI events (error, scan, mlqueue, mlcomplete, llqueue, llcomplete, hlqueue, hlcomplete). Note that better control of which events are logged can be obtained via the /proc/scsi/scsi interface if you aren't interested in the events that take place at boot before the /proc/ filesystem is accessible. I have it set to 1, I think that is right unless you have a cdrom jukebox or something. > initrd /initrd.img-2.4.26-1-686 > savedefault > boot > > Lsmod shows that after reboot both cdrom and ide-cd modules are running You don't want ide-cd loaded, just sg and ide-scsi, put them in your /etc/modules file. > Could this be because I have discover1 installed or something similar > that tries to reconfigure my kernel modules? Maybe that's the trouble, I don't use it. I suggest once you've "discovered" what modules you need for your system, disable discover and specify them manually in /etc/modules. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
