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Offline dtopham

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Is there a limit on multiple virtual drives?
« on: August 24, 2014, 08:31:36 AM »
When I boot tc like this:

qemu -L . -hda tinycore.img  -hdb data1.img -hdc data2.img

(where tc was installed to  tinycore.img)

I only see sda1 and sdb1 in the mount tool  (and trying to mount sdc1 from the command line reports that it can't find the device)

Is there a limit of 2 virtual hard drives?

I noticed that qemu sees these as:
ide0-hd0
ide0-hd1
ide1-hd0
« Last Edit: August 24, 2014, 09:00:58 AM by dtopham »

Offline gerald_clark

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Re: Is there a limit on multiple virtual drives?
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2014, 09:48:34 AM »
What does blkid show?

Offline curaga

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Re: Is there a limit on multiple virtual drives?
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2014, 12:17:57 PM »
This belongs to Qemu forums / ml really. The third IDE is used for the cdrom drive.
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Offline dtopham

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Re: Is there a limit on multiple virtual drives?
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2014, 08:50:49 PM »
What does blkid show?

Attached images show that qemu sees the 3 devices, but tinycore only 2 of them...

I noticed there is a message about "unknown partition table" related to sdc, but it also says that it has been
attached as a SCSI disk  (in dmesg.png)

Offline dtopham

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Re: Is there a limit on multiple virtual drives?
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2014, 09:41:34 PM »
FALSE ALARM!  Sorry to have bothered you, but the error in dmesg got me thinking and I tried a different virtual drive for hdc/sdc1 and it worked!  I will do more testing myself next time before I ask for help.