Re: SCSI disk naming (fwd)

Robert Glamm (glamm@mountains.ee.umn.edu)
Thu, 10 Jul 1997 18:04:07 -0500 (CDT)


> On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Harald Milz wrote:
>
> > Heck, and we need support for more than 16 SCSI disks. I am going to test
> > the IBM #7190 SSA-to-SCSI converter (a.k.a. Vicom box) with Linux soon to
> > get Linux into the official compatibility list used by IBM sales, and
> > I am currently limited to attaching 14 9.1 Gig SSA disks because my
> > machine has already 2 internal SCSI disks. /&%$§&%
> >
>
> Would someone please tell me, IS ANYONE WORKING ON A DEVFS FOR LINUX? :)

What the hell's wrong with a RAID array? Sheesh, you've got 14 _identical_
9.1 G drives anyway, fork out the cash for a hot-swappable array to sit
on your SCSI controller...

-Bob