From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rabeeh Khoury Subject: Re: Linux limitation of amount of SCSI buses Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 20:34:27 +0300 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3F26B023.7090503@il.marvell.com> References: <3F266F60.5070501@il.marvell.com> <20030729155841.GE8407@beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from pop3.galileo.co.il ([199.203.130.130]:20665 "EHLO mail.galileo.co.il") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271938AbTG2RfH (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:35:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030729155841.GE8407@beaverton.ibm.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Anderson Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org > > >>I'm connecting few cards with 24 buses and Linux gives me only 15 buses. >>Is there any limitation in Linux SCSI subsystem within kernel 2.4.x of >>the number of SCSI buses ? >>Each bus has a single target and a single LUN. >> >> > >Does each card have multiple channels (i.e., 24)? If so you may need to >set max_channel to a higher value. > Each card has 8 buses ; total 3 cards. On each bus I have a single target that has single LUN. If I work with a single adapter I can see 8 buses. > >If each card has a single bus there may be a instance limit that the >driver you are using will support. > >What driver are you using? > Internal driver that is under development. > >-andmike >-- >Michael Anderson >andmike@us.ibm.com > > >. > >