Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:01:28 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: Patrick Thomas <root@utility.clubscholarship.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE vs. SCSI partition and slice limits Message-ID: <20020226180128.A64373@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <20020226161306.C34815-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com>; from root@utility.clubscholarship.com on Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 04:15:11PM -0800 References: <20020226161306.C34815-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com>
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[ You're sending mail as root. Generally that's a bad thing. ] On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 16:15:11 -0800, Patrick Thomas wrote: > > 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 ? That is correct. > 2. Do these exact same limits exist for scsi drives, or are the numbers > different (and if so, what are they) The slice limits are a general PC thing, and the partitions are a limitation of the FreeBSD disklabel. So you'll have the same limits on any type of disk under FreeBSD. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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