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From: bob@kenobi.pmr.com (Bob Willcox)
Subject: Re: And how many drives?
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In article <51gldv$1rh@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie>,
dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) writes:
> Fedor Gnuchev <qwe@ht.eimb.rssi.ru> writes:
>
>>Say I've got 3 cards and want to put 4 to 5 drives on each - what is an
>>addressing scheme - "sdNsNA" does not show where controller id come into play?
>
> You can assign each sdN to a specific controler and device on that
> controler in the kernel config file.
Or, if you don't assign them in the config file, they will simply
get assigned in the order in which each disk is discovered.
>
> David.
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