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    SubjectRe: Too many disks in system? (RAID5)
    Lennart Sorensen wrote:
    > On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:25:58PM +0100, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
    >
    >>Hello,
    >>
    >>I have system with attached SATA array which contains 24 disks. I wanted to run
    >>software RAID 5, but 24 disks means, that I would need /dev/sda to /dev/sdx
    >>devices with major 8 and last minor 384. Minor seems to be limited to 8 bits.
    >>Is there any chance to run software array using all 24 disks?
    >>
    >>My test was with mknod v. 5.2.1 and kernel 2.6.14.3
    >
    >
    > Major 8 is not the only scsi major. Look at devices.txt in the kernel
    > Documentation dir. MAKEDEV also usually knows how to make more scsi
    > devices. For example major 65. Just use MAKEDEV /dev/sdx and see what
    > it creates.

    Does udev not know how to handle this?
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