[plug] Install

[Daniel Pearson]

Hi,
Is there a chance of me being able to get one or two of the biggest ones you
have for offer?

-Daniel
-----Original Message-----
From: Leon Brooks <leon at brooks.smileys.net>
To: plug at linux.org.au <plug at linux.org.au>
Date: Sunday, March 28, 1999 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Install


>Daniel Pearson wrote:
>> How many HD's can a machine take? :P
>
>Two per IDE controller. Maybe six or seven per SCSI controller. "Normal"
>IDE controllers allow primary" and "secondary" addresses. Some of the
>dual controllers allow others. I think the default kernel limit is eight
>IDE drives but AFAIK this can be changed by editing one parameter in one
>source file. The next limit would be IRQs but Linux and most controllers
>allow IRQ sharing and some PNP and oboard controllers allow arbitrary
>IRQ numbers, so the next real limit would be power supply size. You
>could (yuk) use two or more PSUs, at which point motherboard sockets
>would be the barrier. If you had an 8-socket IDE motherboard, and used
>one socket for the VGA card, filling all others with dual IDE controller
>cards (no floppy, parallel or serial ports unless already on
>motherboard) break out the soldering iron to configure them), you could
>have 28 IDE hard drives, I guess. If you could scrape together enough
>SCSI controllers and drive, running 7 drives on each controller, you
>could have be 49 drives. But I wouldn't. (-: Even 49 drives, at
>40MB/drive, only adds up to about 2G, and you can buy a *new* *fast*
>6.4G HDD for about $200 plus tax wholesale :-).
>
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