>> Oh - and those numbers limits apply only to Intel hardware - I've seen
>> Vax/Alpha boxen with literally thousands of drives hanging off them. Can't
>> do that with IDE.
I have seen intel boxes running a couple of hundred scsi devices through linux,
but the record in my book is an beta version of one of the new HP boxes
(supposed to be running suse or some sort - or is that sco?) which had 117642 x
85GB scsi devices running off it. Im not sure how they did that.. but its pretty
amazing. What you could do with a bit fat data pipe to the net and nearly 10,000
terabytes of drivespace.... :)
Also, Scsi devices, in my experience, are also much more reliable than IDE
devices.
Aaron
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