From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 16 21: 4:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp4.mindspring.com (smtp4.mindspring.com [207.69.200.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A0214A2D for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 21:04:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (user-2ivea03.dialup.mindspring.com [165.247.40.3]) by smtp4.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA30161; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 00:04:08 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <383236E3.42F5AF4E@confusion.net> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 00:02:27 -0500 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Tancsa Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some quickies References: <38323150.744934479@mail.sentex.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Will the OS support however many i manage to cram in, or is there some maximum? ie if I had 6 SCSI cards with 15 drives each will FreeBSD deal with the 90 drives that'd come to? Mike Tancsa wrote: > > On 16 Nov 1999 22:35:36 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: > > >1) How many scsi hard drives will the system support at once? > > I would think you could cram in 15 per SCSI card. But if you are > considering approaching anywhere near that limit, I would imagine looking > at an external RAID array would make far more sense. > -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 The above email Copyright (C) 1999 Laurence Berland All rights reserved To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message