From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Feb 26 17: 1:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9287537B41B for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 17:01:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g1R11S864516; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:01:28 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ken) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:01:28 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Patrick Thomas Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE vs. SCSI partition and slice limits Message-ID: <20020226180128.A64373@panzer.kdm.org> References: <20020226161306.C34815-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020226161306.C34815-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com>; from root@utility.clubscholarship.com on Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 04:15:11PM -0800 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 [ 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