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Date:      Fri, 1 Aug 1997 15:18:16 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sysadmin levels today?
Message-ID:  <199708010548.PAA03856@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <19970801072030.LW57760@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Aug 1, 97 07:20:30 am"

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J Wunsch stands accused of saying:
> As Michael Smith wrote:
> 
> > Yeah.  Not to mention that you can put 8 LUNs on each unit, which
> > makes the correct answer 57 or 121 respectively.
> 
> Not really.  LUNs are normally subdevices, but not applicable to
> different devices.

Nonsense.  Look at the Emulex MD21, or the Ultrastor LUN breakout
unit.  Certainly LUN decoding has to occur within a single physical
unit, but this doesn't mean that all the items hung off that unit are
the same device.

> I think wide-SCSI with 32 bits is also standardized, but has never
> been actually built.  This should allow for 32 targets.

Yipe!

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