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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Adding SCSI disks to BSDI...
Date: 3 Sep 1996 09:21:28 GMT
Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden
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I wrote:

> > Almost any BSD based system has a _default_ limit of 4 SCSI drives.
> 
> This is wrong these days.

Errm.  I partially misread this.  Of course, the number of /dev nodes
is still limited, since (to the best of my knowledge) none of the BSD
systems has a working devfs yet.  FreeBSD has one, but it's not yet
fully operationable.

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J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j