> > > 16 controllers. OK...
> >
> > No not controllers. This is buses on the controller. 4 bits for this
> > should be the lower limit. The smallest SSA that you can buy from
> > SUN for example has already 6 buses.
OK, right. Sun's slightly abuse their c#t#d#s# slightly when it comes to SSAs.
The c# is the Fibre line controler. NOTE: this is a different driver and
has a different major device number. Thus we can treat the t# (the bus inside
the SSA) as if it was a controller. The "16 controller" limit I mentioned
above is 16 controllers of the same type. A Sun SSA 100 series has 6 FW buses
each of which have 5 disks on them.
So..
c# Fibre controller
t# Bus
d# Disk on bus
s# Partition on disk
There are no LUNs.
My calculations stand.
Stephen Harris
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