From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261326AbVANFvy (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:51:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261606AbVANFvy (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:51:54 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:20373 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261326AbVANFvw (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:51:52 -0500 Message-ID: <41E75DE5.4020108@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:51:33 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mitch Sako CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: libata 2.6.10 limitation? References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050113163537.03cb9208@mailhub> In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050113163537.03cb9208@mailhub> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mitch Sako wrote: > >> Is there a limitation to the number of SATA drives for libata that can >> be loaded to a 32bit Intel machine running 2.6.10? I'm trying to >> setup six JBOD drives using 3 Promise cards or 3 Silicon Image cards >> or 2 Promise TX4 cards and I'm seeing a problem with /dev/sde (the >> fifth drive out of six) only. I'm getting SCSI errors and machine >> hangs on the fifth drive only. There is no limitation to the number of cards or devices. Jeff