Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 May 1998 18:23:24 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Phil's Kernel Account" <> | Subject | Re: Poor device management |
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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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