From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Feb 26 16:18:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from utility.clubscholarship.com (utility.clubscholarship.com [198.78.70.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C93D037B400 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 16:18:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by utility.clubscholarship.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1R0FBt35423 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 16:15:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@utility.clubscholarship.com) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 16:15:11 -0800 (PST) From: Patrick Thomas To: Subject: IDE vs. SCSI partition and slice limits Message-ID: <20020226161306.C34815-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have discovered, through trial and error, that when using IDE drives in FreeBSD I am limited to 4 slices per drive, and 8 partitions per slice. 1. Is what I just described correct, or was my trial and error flawed ? 2. Do these exact same limits exist for scsi drives, or are the numbers different (and if so, what are they) thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message