Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 2 Jul 1996 18:34:21 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Michael Neuffer <> | Subject | Re: SCSI device numbering |
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On Tue, 2 Jul 1996, Albert Cahalan wrote: > >> No, it is sufficient for everything, including really weird > >> SCSI adapters. Using nibble boundries (for nice hex output), > >> dev_t can be split as follows: > > > >> Purpose Bits Normal Extreme > >> controller 4 <= 1 2 > >> bus 4 == 0 1 > >> device 8 <= 2 4 > > > > What about wide SCSI? It does 16 devices. > > No problem. 8 _bits_ gives 2^8-1 devices, which is 255. > That is over 15 times what you need for wide SCSI.
Maybe for WIDE, but with FCAL you have no more room left to breathe. FCAL supports 8 bits as device ID.
Mike
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