From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 17 20:41:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 349A337B719 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 20:41:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 26B086AB60; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 15:11:12 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 15:11:12 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: richard childers Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: SCSI disks / disklabel / vinum] Message-ID: <20010318151111.J764@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3AB43BE7.C85B3373@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AB43BE7.C85B3373@pacbell.net>; from fscked@pacbell.net on Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 08:39:03PM -0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 17 March 2001 at 20:39:03 -0800, richard childers wrote: > Is there an upper limit on the number of SCSI disks that can be > addressed, by default, in the kernel? There's no default. The upper limit appears to be 512 (i.e. up to /dev/da511), though I can't see any reason for this limit based on the layout of the minor device number. > I recall encountering a boundary of 4 drives, back a release or > three ago. I'm pretty sure it was never this low. It's possible that there were only device nodes for four disks, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the kernel. You may need to apply a bit of /dev/MAKEDEV until you can upgrade to devfs, however. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message