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    SubjectRe: Poor device management
    On 19 May 1998, John Goerzen wrote:

    #Hi,

    Hi there! :)

    #I would like to address the topic of naming of devices. Currently, we
    #have two serious problems:

    I'm only going to address the first, since I'm VERY close to running into
    it.

    #1. It appears that Linux can support a maximum of 16 SCSI hard drives
    #per system, according to devices.txt.
    #
    #This is a serious issue as we would like to have more than that on
    #some machines but the OS does not appear to support that. The
    #allocated block of device numbers appears to have no support for more.

    If this is correct, then we definitely have a problem. UW SCSI supports up
    to 15 SCSI ID's, with one being reserved for the card. You add in another
    UW SCSI controller, max both, that's 8 drives you can't use. Not pretty if
    you're trying to build a software RAID stack. Or a massive RAID stack off
    a DAC960 5 channel. :(

    -Phil R. Jaenke (kernel@nls.net / prj@nls.net)
    TheGuyInCharge(tm), Ketyra Designs - We get paid to break stuff :)
    Linux pkrea.ketyra.INT 2.0.33 #15 Sat Apr 18 00:40:21 EDT 1998 i586
    Linux eiterra.nls.net 2.0.33 #15 Fri Apr 17 00:22:13 EDT 1998 i586
    - Linus says for 'brave people only.' I say 'keep a backup.' - :)


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