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The Friday 2007-08-24 at 17:07 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@> [08-24-07 15:42]:
> [...]
> > But... aren't channels the devices connected to the same cable (bus)? Ugh,
> > just looked it up in the wikipedia and there is no mention of what
> > "channels" are.
>
> as usual, this came to mind after posting. The moment of greatest
> revelation :^) This is *probably* correct, your understanding. It
> has been some time since I spent much time/money on scsi. As I recall
> it was when scanning required scsi or a proprietary card, I had an
> HP 4c and paid ~us$800 for a discounted item.
Me too... but my boss paid, not me. And those scsi cards only worked for
one "thing", very often you could not plug a disk or another scanner to
the card.
Time changes! I'm grateful for usb over this one, at least ;-)
> > I can see a "reasonable reason" to limit devices to 8 or 16 (limit the
> > number of cables), but not for the number of partitions inside a device.
> > For small disks, maybe, but with the size of disks nowdays, 16 partitions
> > is absurd.
>
> agreed.
It appears to be a software limit. And very difficult to overcome :-(
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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