Re: [gentoo-user] Dual USB HDD enclosure shows only a single disk (NexStar MX)

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 18:23 -0800, felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 02:38:40AM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > On Montag, 17. Dezember 2007, felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> > > The kernel config does NOT set CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN, if that makes
> > > any difference.
> > 
> > it should. Please set it. Oh, and don't forget - in 'single disk mode' you 
> > might loose everything if one of the two disks dies.
> 
> I don't mean to sound argumentative, but why shoul SCIS LUNs matter
> here?  I know USB comes across as SCSI disks, but why should the USB
> system care about them -- why wouldn't the USB interface simply
> present itself as two disks, sda and sdb for instance?
> 
> I am not worried about one of the two disks dying.  I intend to use
> two of them, one as backup.  Of course, backups aren't foolproof, but
> I have other backups too.

don't ask me, I only work here... but I have a "multimedia unit" that
has 4 card reader slots, a HD, an LCD and USB2.  Only /dev/sda shows up
if I don't set the multiple luns option, and /dev/sda isn't the HD!
It's the (usually empty) CFCARD slot!

I don't know why it isn't on by default in the livecd either...

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