on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:48 PM +0100, martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also sprach Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.22.1919 +0100]:
> > My point is, it's a stupid design decision that (thankfully) is being > > corrected, but MS isn't the only group of people guilty of this kind of > > thing. > > but linux handles it so much more gracefully if you have a capable > admin. More to the point: legacy MS Windows (very often) doesn't. That's more or less my point: the assumptions toward single-resource or fixed-resource are so ingrained, that you can't work around them. > curious: can you have 27 SCSI disks? what's the 27th called? /dev/sdaa, best I can make out. See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt, "SCSI disk devices" The limit appears to be 128 SCSI disks, by the assigned device numbers scheme. The 128th SCSI disk whole disk is /dev/sddx. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free We freed Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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