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Re: [opensuse] the new openSUSE kernel and the IDE
  • From: "Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:00:57 -0400
  • Message-id: <87f94c370704141700w11e85da1p4db1b0631f4825eb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 4/14/07, Alexey Eremenko <al4321@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What will happen after "sdX" reaches from sda to sdz ? i.e. if you
have over 26 hard disks in your system ?

I tried to put a bunch of 2-channel IDE controllers in a SUSE box a
couple years ago.

I found that you run out of supported channels before you run out of
drive letters.  When I tried to actually do some performance testing
(dd bs=4k if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX to lots of drives) I found the
performance dropped off rapidly with lots of simultaneous disk
activity.  I chalked it up to running out of PCI-bus bandwidth, but I
don't really know.

Greg
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