Hello,
SCSI 3 protocol has a limit of 16 the controller being one.
Scsi 2 was 8 If I remember right.
It's not a driver issue it's the hardware limit.
Terry.
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've searched for this information in several places, but was unable
> to find a satisfactory answer. If this is in a FAQ somewhere that I've
> missed, please feel free to redirect me.
>
> Why is there a limit of 15 SCSI devices per drive? Can it (will it) be
> increased ever?
>
> The motivation for asking: We are using Sybase, and it has a limit of
> 2GB on raw devices. When we put together a RAID array larger than 30
> GB, we will be unable to utilize all the space this way and still have
> it spread across as many drives as possible (7 in our case). We could
> format the devices and Sybase then has no limit (it will create 2GB
> virtual devices on the filesystem), but we then take a performance
> hit.
>
> What we'd like to do is be able to create more than 15 2GB raw devices
> per array.
>
> Thank you for any information you can provide,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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