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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: 3940?
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Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 18:25:18 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199511272327.PAA00141@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Nov 27, 95 03:26:56 pm
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> >Anyways.  Note that I use "octal" type notation to make locating drives
> >easier, "sd23" is unit 3 on bus 2...  it certainly is not REQUIRED you name
> >your devices in this fashion however!!  Very arbitrary on my part.
> 
>    That's what I do on wcarchive, too.

Related, but not really:  pet peeve of the day: DK_NDRIVE is set to 8 in
sys/dkstat.h.  This effectively limits the number of drives I can get
statistics on - statistics that would tend to be more useful the more drives
I have.  Is there any harm in increasing this?  My news box has a dozen
disks.

(I also noticed: extern int dk_busy;    /* bit field of busy drives */
which is sorta scary  :-)  wonder how many other places there are hidden
limits built in?)

... JG