Devfs and many scsi devices

From: Vish grover (vishal_stud_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/24/04


Date: 23 Apr 2004 18:32:46 -0700

Hi,
 I was reading about devfs and how it doesn't use major/minor numbers
for identifying devices. If one is using devfs is there still a
restriction on the maximum number of SCSI disks one can have ? In
other words one should be able to go beyond the approx. 2144
limit(which was provided by some SCSI patch - fail to remmeber the
patch). My question currently releates to the 2.4.xx kernel.

 If anyone has any insight into this could you let me know ? Thanks in
advance ,

Regards,
-V



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