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Date:      Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:32:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Large DB on FBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971113113129.2209I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19971113021659.19860.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com>

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On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Rudy Gireyev wrote:

> 3. Lastly I would like to stuff as many SCSI (NCR) boards in my final
> machine as I can, final as in not the test machine. What is the limit
> of the number of SCSI boards FBSD will handle efficiently. If memory
> serves me right this may be a hardware limit of the x86 architecture
> bit I'm not sure.

Its limited by how many busmastering devices you can have in your
motherboard.  FreeBSD can handle as many as you can throw at it.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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