On 4/14/07, Alexey Eremenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What will happen after "sdX" reaches from sda to sdz ? i.e. if you have over 26 hard disks in your system ?
I tried to put a bunch of 2-channel IDE controllers in a SUSE box a couple years ago. I found that you run out of supported channels before you run out of drive letters. When I tried to actually do some performance testing (dd bs=4k if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX to lots of drives) I found the performance dropped off rapidly with lots of simultaneous disk activity. I chalked it up to running out of PCI-bus bandwidth, but I don't really know. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
