[466] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Generic Scsi Driver Bug Report and comments.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard N. Zubkoff)
Thu Aug 3 18:39:51 1995
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 08:51:05 -0700
From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
To: Peter.Anvin@linux.org
Cc: submit-linux-dev-scsi@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <hpa.30206117.Allah.u.Abha@asgard.yggdrasil.com>
From: hpa@asgard.yggdrasil.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Newsgroups: linux.dev.scsi
Date: 3 Aug 1995 05:46:19 GMT
This is true. This would require going to a 32- or 64-bit dev_t,
however. libc-5 has the necessary hooks for changing the size of
dev_t (it includes a version number in its stat call), and with the
1.3 development kernel in full swing it is about the right time to
make such a migration.
AFAIK, the constraints to keep in mind are:
# of LUNs/ID 3 bits (can this be more on wide/xwide SCSI?)
The BusLogic Wide SCSI Host Adapters can support 64 LUNs, and apparently some
of their customers actually use them.
Leonard
