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- From: ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson)
- Subject: SUMMARY: Re: Four disks on a Xylogics 451 controller
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.223716.243@nobeltech.se>
- Organization: NobelTech AB
- References: <1992Sep7.224721.11945@nobeltech.se> <BuDGK0.6DJ@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:37:16 GMT
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- I wrote:
- >I have a 3/280, with three disks on two Xylogics 451 controllers. Now I need to
- >connect more disks, and I was wonderring how. I have heard rumours about
- >a driver for four disks per 451, has anybody seen it ? Or can I put another
- >451 controller in the 3/280 ?
-
- It seems my local SUN-manager rememberred completely wrong. I have gotten a
- lot of messages, nearly all telling me it will work, some specifying OS:es
- such as 3.5. So I tried with my 4.1.1_U1 system and three disks. It works!
- Just change in the config file to have targets 0,1,2,3 corresponding to
- xyc0 disk xy0,xy1,xy2,xy3, and do a MAKEDEV xy* for the added drives.
- (It might be a bit slow to have more than two drives though)
-
- Thanx all !
- /Per
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