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From: Willie Wong <wwong@math.princeton.edu>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] IDE/USB problem : not both disks recognized on
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On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 10:46:00AM +0100, Penguin Lover Rohit squawked:
> I have an IDE disk enclosure (can house 2 disks per IDE channel, a total of
> 4 currently plugged in) which makes IDE disks available to the main computer
> via 2x USB 2.0 connection (One USB 2.0 port connected to IDE adapter).
> The problem I have is that the computer is able to see only 1 IDE disk per
> channel. At a time, as a result, my server can only see 2 disks instead of 4
> connected, one disk per channel only.
> 

Not an IDE problem. A SCSI problem. Those USB enclosures makes it so. 

In menuconfigs, go to 

Device Drivers -> SCSI device Support

and check Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device.

W
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