From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wakko Warner Subject: Re: limits on raid Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:46:33 -0400 Message-ID: <20070618214633.GA15468@animx.eu.org> References: <18035.23867.576212.859440@notabene.brown> <4676BEC2.7090809@redhat.com> <20070618180327.GP10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20070618183324.GL10006@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <4676D8DE.3050903@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: david@lang.hm Cc: Brendan Conoboy , Lennart Sorensen , Neil Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids david@lang.hm wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > > >david@lang.hm wrote: > >> yes, sorry, ultra 320 wide. > > > >Exactly how many channels and drives? > > one channel, 2 OS drives plus the 45 drives in the array. Given that the drives only have 4 ID bits, how can you have 47 drives on 1 cable? You'd need a minimum of 3 channels for 47 drives. Do you have some sort of external box that holds X number of drives and only uses a single ID? -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals Got Gas???