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From: Hugo van der Kooij
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 00:00

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Lenny <lenny@bga.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>     I've got a Panasonic SCSI worm drive that I've hung off of my SCSI 
>controller.  When I boot up RedHat, it says that it can't find a 
>partition on that device.  When I try to run fdisk it says it can't 
>open the device.  How do I set up this worm drive? Is there kernel code 
>that supports a raw SCSI write, or do I try to set up a file system 
>(extfs or otherwise). 

Are you refering to the Panasonic Power Drive? I have one and found
there is a small thing to take care of as it is two device on one SCSI
id. Enable multiple LUNs when ever you build your own kernel otherwise
load your kernel with the following command 'linux max_scsi_luns=2'.

It works for me just fine.

Regards,
Hugo.

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From: hvdkooij@xs4all.nl (Hugo van der Kooij)
Subject: Re: Panasonic optical worm drive
Date: 1996/07/20
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